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Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue said the General Hospital in Otukpo, Benue,&nbsp;would soon be&nbsp;upgraded to a teaching hospital&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Federal University of Health Sciences located in the town.&nbsp;

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<h1>Ortom said this on Tuesday in Otukpo Local Government Area of the state while inspecting works on the Isolation Centre located within the hospital premises.&nbsp;</h1>

The governor said that the Federal Government had requested that the facility be released to it, in order to turn it into a teaching hospital for Federal University of Health Sciences.&nbsp;

“We have granted the request and had communicated our willingness to hand over the facility to the Federal Government,” he said.&nbsp;

He also&nbsp;said that while the state government awaits the take over of the facility by the Federal Government, it would fix all the decayed&nbsp;infrastructure there .&nbsp;

Ortom also&nbsp;directed the Medical Officer in-charge of the hospital, Dr Ada Ogwu, to list all the decayed infrastructure&nbsp;there so that the state government could fix them without delay.&nbsp;

“We want to address the decayed&nbsp;infrastructure before the Federal Government comes to take over,” he said.&nbsp;

The governor also encouraged the contractor to hasten work on the isolation centre.&nbsp;

He, however, admonished the people against stigmatisation, stressing that people who were having signs of COVID-19&nbsp;pandemic&nbsp;should come out, so that their samples could be collected and sent to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for testing.&nbsp;

Earlier, Dr Ogwu told the governor that the hospital was experiencing a shortage of staff, particularly nurses.&nbsp;

He also listed the challenges of the hospital to include: water-tanker, completion of the laboratory, completion of wards four and five,&nbsp;and the theatre complex.&nbsp;

Otukpo General Hospital to turn teaching hospital soon – Ortom

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