UCH inaugurates Tony Anenih Centre today

THE University College Hospital, Ibadan, will today  inaugurate a multi-million naira Geriatric Centre, named after former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih.
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, and top functionaries of government are billed to attend the ceremony.
Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Temitope Alonge, said the centre was built to take care of the aged (from 65 and above), whose hospital attendance in the past 10 years had risen.
Alonge said “the record of hospital attendance in the past 10 years reveals an upsurge in the number of geriatric patients in the clinic register, admission records and among patients requiring various surgical procedures.
“These findings informed the choice of the construction of a Geriatric Centre (as part of our 2011 Capital Project) that will provide outpatient and in-patient services for our teeming number of geriatric clients,” he said.
Professor Alonge, said the management of the hospital unanimously agreed at a meeting in July, this year, on the choice of Anenih as the endower of the Centre, which “is the very first of such in Nigeria.”
He said the choice of Anenih was, among others, informed by his similar efforts at the University of Benin, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, among others.
The Federal Government has earmarked N275 million to equip the two operating theatres in the centre.