On Friday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) inaugurated an oxygen plant it built in collaboration with IHS Towers, the Canadian government, and other donor partners for the Ebonyi state government.healthcare infrastructure.My office will be coming for an inspection here to see to it that the plant functions well.
On his part, Chief Medical Director of FETHA, Professor Robinson Ono, while commending UNICEF and the state government for the oxygen plant, requested the solarization of the plant.
“Unicef handed over an oxygen plant that has the capacity to produce 6,000 litres of oxygen per day to the state; it’s meant to be co-managed with our staff and the state.
“For us, this is what we have been looking for, where we will now have our own oxygen production done by ourselves, and Unicef has come to our help by domiciling this oxygen plant in this hospital.
“We want to assure the world that we have well-trained engineers that will man this plant and that we will ensure that oxygen production is done regularly so that patients that come to this hospital can receive oxygen freely and that we can save a lot of lives.
“I am also requesting that this oxygen plant be solarized because diesel is very expensive, and when you work on diesel, the production will be as if you are buying it from other places. But if it is polarised, the cost of production and the cost patients will pay for it will also be reduced.
When I was talking early, I requested support for a water treatment plant. The essence of it is that we discovered that a lot of patients now have renal failure, and we think that one of the things that may be causing it is the kind of water we have here (hard water).”
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