Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara has assured of the completion of the ongoing construction of a general hospital in Obio/Akpor LGA in eight months time.
Fubara said this when he visited the project site located along the Psychiatric Road in Rumuigbo Community on Tuesday.
He said, “If you could remember, we were here sometime ago, and we did, after inspecting this facility, we came up with the decision that this facility (Psychiatric Hospital) needs to be upgraded.
“You know this place as our old Psychiatric Hospital. We decided to build a modern Psychiatric Hospital, knowing fully well the problem we have today in the society; mental illness.
“So the facility we are putting on ground here is a world class standard that would take care of those challenges
“We are doing two projects here. First is the psychiatric hospital, the second one is a general hospital
“This General Hospital is taking care of, in fact, I can say that in Obio-Akpor as a Local Government Area, there is no General Hospital.
“So, we are building a standard General Hospital for the Obio-Akpor LGA here
“These are what we have come to see and I can tell you I am impressed with what is happening.
“It is not up to one month that this job was awarded and you can see the extent of work that is going on.
“I am very optimistic that, as part of our promise to our people; healthcare as one of the priorities area(things), we are going to deliver this project in the next eight months.”
