A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for the establishment of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Imo State.
The MoU was signed when the Executive Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, welcomed Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, to the State.
Uzodimma announced via X: “I received in audience the Honourable Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, who visited Imo State on official assignment for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in the State.”
The Governor said, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration through the Ministry has been “exceptionally magnanimous” to Imo State by approving multiple intervention programmes, projects by his (Uzodimma) administration, with the FMC being the recently approved project.
The FMC was approved after the functioning FMC was converted into a Federal Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO).
Uzodimma said: “The Ministry, under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been exceptionally magnanimous to Imo State through the approval of several intervention programmes, projects, and requests submitted by my administration,
“with particular reference to the recent approval of the FMC, following the conversion of the existing FMC into a Federal Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO).”
The Governor further said: “In the overriding public interest, the State Government ceded the State General Hospital, Okigwe, to facilitate the immediate take-off of the new FMC.
“I expressed my profound gratitude to the Federal Government for approving the takeover of the hospital’s assets and liabilities, including its workforce, as I had appealed.”
He expressed his “sincere” thankfulness to President Tinubu for his “commitment” to Imolites, as well as, the Nigerian Leader’s “resolve” in handling essential infrastructural deficits in the “overall best interest” of Nigeria.
Uzodimma said: “I further conveyed my sincere appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his commitment to the welfare of the people, his resolve in addressing critical infrastructural deficits, and his support for institutional growth in the overall best interest of the nation.”
