Dr. Imafidon Osama Agbonile, Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer of Edo Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin City, has said that the major challenge facing the hospital is its dual location which is a big task for the management in view of the dwindling economic resources affecting the world. He promised to make the hospital’s rebuilding efforts a collective one.
“The hospital’s management is saddled with the onerous task of running a dual site with its attendant duplicity in waste management disposal bills, overhead expenditures and others,” Dr. Agbonile stated.
He noted, “the idea of a dual site grew out of the fact that the original site of the hospital at Uselu, which started as a clinic at inception, could no longer cope with patients’ traffic and staff.”
The Medical Director stressed that the construction work on the new site, which is meant to serve as permanent site, has been ongoing for over 10 years with its appreciable number of structures on ground to show for the level of government commitment to its completion.
According to Dr. Agbonile, “the permanent site is presently being put into effective use pending the completion of construction works and final movement of the main shell of the hospital.
“We are on a tight rope as things stand. Running a dual site means double overheads on virtually every area of hospital management. Very soon, we are hopeful that we would streamline our costs and make some savings once the hospital moves to its permanent site.”
