The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has praised the FCTA’s leadership in ensuring that its hospitals have basic amenities.
The committee referred to the hospitals’ amenities as being of the highest caliber and, in fact, the best in the nation.
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, the chairman of the committee, made this statement while performing an oversight role on the projects being carried out by the FCT in Abuja.
Adeyemi promised the Administration the support of the National Assembly in its efforts to provide state-of-the-art facilities across its hospitals for the benefit of the teeming population. He was clearly excited about the level and standard of project implementation in the FCT hospitals.
According to him, Abuja is a city for all Nigerians, and the local government must be ready to increase its social services in order to house everyone who wants to live there and conduct legal business.
The member also asked for the construction of a new hospital in Nyanya to relieve pressure on the region’s sole government-run facility.
He, therefore, urged the FCT Administration to consider the interest of the masses in all its programmes and promised to make budgetary provision for healthcare services an utmost priority.
Conducting the Committee round the projects, the Permanent Secretary, FCT, Olusade Adesola, who represented the Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello, said the Administration had plans to build and install modern facilities such as MRI, X-Ray machines, and Radiology equipment in Asokoro hospital.
Adesola revealed during the tour that plans were on top gear for the establishment of Model Schools across the FCT and upgrading of facilities at Government Science Secondary School, Pyakassa, Maitama-Abuja.
The permanent secretary lamented that the influx of people into the FCT was over-stretching the social facilities and infrastructure provided by the government and urged the National Assembly to ensure adequate budgetary provision for their expansion.
While appealing to the National Assembly to support the efforts of the Administration in providing critical infrastructure for the well-being of the residents, Adesola said it would always make judicious use of resources provided to it by the National Assembly.
The projects visited included Senior Government Secondary School, Junior Secondary School I; Junior Secondary School II, and LEA Primary School all in Nyanya; Nyanya General Hospital, Asokoro District Hospital, and Government Science Secondary School Pyakassa, Maitama-Abuja.
The Chief of Staff to the FCT Minister, Malam Bashir Mai-Borno, Secretary of Education Secretariat, Sani El-Katuzu, Directors and other top officials of the FCT Administration were on the entourage.