Professor Bissala Ekele,Chief Medical Director, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada said the 5OO bed tertiary institution hospital has the capacity of expanding to 800 bed in the nearest future with an enabling environment.
He made this remark during the commissioning of the new modern Diabetics and Endocrine Centre named after Professor Felicia Onuma donated by the office of the Senior Special Assistant To the President on Sustainable Developement Goals SDGs to the hospital.
She commended Nigeria’s first lady,Hajiya Aisha Muhammadu Buhari for her intervention through the SSA to the President on SDGs,Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire for considering the hospital for for the donation thirty years after it’s inception.
He stressed the need for more attention on the establishment of a modern maternity centre as well as magnetic resonance imaging machine(MRI) machine to support the hospital in it’s one stop services.
Professor Bissala maintained that the convener of the Diabetes and Endocrine Centre is the “Baby of our own,saying her selfless efforts was laudable towards the realization and treatment of communicable diseases in Nigeria.
“Dr Felicia Anumah- A Professor of Endocrinology and the delivery of this baby has been made possible by the “Obstetrician”,Her Excellency,Dr Aisha Muhammadu Buhari”