Leadership (Abuja)
Winifred Ogbebo
18 November 2008
Abuja — The Niger-American Medical City (N-AMC) has, in the last four months, spent over N120 million on the provision of equipment, engaging medical consultants and general upgrading of the IBB Specialist Hospital, Minna, Niger state.
The Chief Operating Officer of N-AMC, Ms Habiba Mohammed-Sha'aba disclosed this at a news briefing at the weekend in Abuja.
The hospital was recently concessioned to the N-AMC by the state government under a Public Private Partnership (PPP)
The N-AMC, Mohammed-Sha'aba said, had already established a gynaecology department in the hospital where the first delivery was recorded on November 11, while a vast land had been acquired for the expansion of the hospital.
The hospital, according to her, was presently being run as a private venture under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with Niger state government, adding that efforts were being made to involve the local government councils to invest in the partnership in order for the hospital services to be subsidized for the benefit of the ordinary citizens of the state.
She said the concession of the hospital, which was hitherto in a dilapidated condition, was to last for 25 years and to run in four phases while the management consultant was expected by the agreement to invest US $300million into the development of hospital.
Under the agreement, the Niger state government, she said, holds 10 percent equity shares of N-AMC, so as not to make it a wholly privately owned, and assured that the hospital would in the near future be of world class standard if all parties remained committed to the agreement.
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