Politique

Ebolowa Regional Hospital: Aptly Constructed, Equipped Facility

Par Eulalia AMABO
06 déc. 2021 13:43
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Constructed on a five-hectare surface area, the second category hospital comprises 14 main buildings with state-of-the art equipment to offer quality health care.

The Ebolowa Regional Hospital, official inaugurated by the Prime Minsiter, Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute on December 3, 2021, is a medical structure constructed with the health component of the 2015-2017 Three-Year Emergency Plan. It is built on a five-hectare site with nearly 14,000m2 of occupied space. The medical facility comprises a set of 14 main buildings housing the administrative and logistic departments, clinical units, medico-technical units and hospital wards, as well as three adjacent buildings for medical fluids, hospital waste shredder and a mortuary with autopsy beds.

Painted in cream white and pale chocolate (an appealing shade of brown), it has pavements decorated in red and white divided by lawns. It has a capacity to contain 118 beds and has a theatre with three state-of-the art operating rooms, resuscitation and intensive care, medical imaging (fixed and mobile radiology), medical analysis laboratory with blood bank, a pharmacy, as well as other units for ophthalmology, odontology, otorhinolaryngology (nose, throat, ear head and neck region related problems), paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology. The health facility is an ultra-modern structure with an up-to-date medical scanners and 400 devices connected to an uninterruptible power supply.

Presenting the hospital, the Director said they effectively started work on June 28, 2021 and have till the date of the inauguration, carried out 730 consultations, 201 radiographies, 223 echography, 780 laboratory analysis and 155 scans conducted. He further explained that accessibility to the hospital and its affordability by all social groups was taken into consideration by authorities, reason the price of a medical scan was placed at FCFA 50,000.