UMTH: 40-Room Lodge for the Comfort of Patients’ Relations and Visitors

UMTH: 40-Room Lodge for the Comfort of Patients’ Relations and Visitors

By: Balami Lazarus

Writing on the progress of developments and innovations at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), you begin to wonder what literary genre you are going to use to write the literature of this great hospital. Well, for NEWSng, prose is the best genre to place UMTH. Why? Because there are so many angles one can take up the story of this hospital under the progressive leadership of Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, the Chief Medical Director (CMD).

The rhythm of innovations in terms of making the hospital a serene and comfortable environment for medical and health care, where medical treatments are administered to patients, taking into consideration the comfort of patients’ relations and visitors to the hospital, and the need for affordable accommodation is paramount.

Therefore, the rhythm is rhyming with the ongoing construction of a 40-room lodge sponsored by the Borno State Government under the administration of His Excellency Babagana Zulum. NEWSng was also informed that such a project/innovation is not common in most hospitals.

Similarly, there are other facilities like orchards, restaurants, and gardens with water fountains for the relaxation and comfort of recuperating patients or their relations, including visitors and students alike. There is also a large conference hall with over 350 seats open for both internal and public use to generate more revenue for the hospital.

Hospitals are generally seen as places meant for medical/healthcare services for patients only. But the case of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) is a shift from hospital tradition—a different ball game.

Notwithstanding, its primary objectives are priorities: to provide medical and health care services, teaching, and research for the betterment of our health sector.

“Comprehensive medical health cover” is a term/language used and associated with the insurance industry. Where you are totally covered and insured health-wise.

Today UMTH has covered you comprehensively, bringing the comforts of homes near patients who are seeking medical treatments, care, and attention to make them feel comfortable as a way to get healed. For this reason, Prof. Ahidjo has worked out sponsorship for providing the hospital with 40 rooms in the Hospital Lodge within the premises of the facility meant for patients’ relations and visitors. The rooms are all en suite and shall be equipped with modern facilities for the comforts of the patient’s relations who might have come from far or near, as the case may be.

You may wish to agree with NEWSng that UMTH is a pacesetter among her peers in terms of modern hospital equipment, materials, progress, growth, and developments.

UMTH: 40-Room Lodge for the Comfort of Patients’ Relations and Visitors

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