Ben Ezechime, Enugu
Professor Cajetan Nwadinigwe, Chief Medical Director, Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital (GOUNI), Enugu, says the hospital will be a reference point for Nigerians medical needs.
Nwadinigwe said this while briefing newsmen in Enugu on the successes the hospital had recorded since inception.
The former Ntasiobi Ndi N’afufu hospital was renamed Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga.
He said that he had been mandated to reposition the hospital to serve people of Enugu State, Nigeria and the world in general, better.
Nwadinigwe said that as a faith based hospital and given its strategic position in Enugu, quality of its medicines and services are assured which would increase level of patronage.
The chief medical director added that the hospital had a lot of linkages and collaborations and windows of opportunities for specialists in all medical fields.
Nwadinigwe said that Ntasiobi Ndi N’afufu hospital, now GOUNI, which was established in 1995 had become one of the biggest diocesan hospitals would be revamped and transformed to meet the needs of Nigerians.
“The name has changed and there are tremendous services added to it and one of the mandates of the hospital is to lead in the production of manpower for healthcare in Nigeria and research.
“It is being repositioned to train medical students in all branches of manpower attached to healthcare and in few months, our medical students will start their training here.
“We are more interested in maternal and child care and other services like gynecology/obstetrics, paediatrics and diagnostic centre.
“We will also engage in digital medical recording,” he said.
Nwadinigwe said that in the next six months to one year, there would be a lot of changes in terms of structure and infrastructure.
It would be recalled that the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, had during the university’s 10th convocation announced the approval of the renaming of Ntasiobi Ndi N’afufu hospital as GOUNI teaching hospital.
Onaga said that the College of Medicine by the University had given the Catholic Church of Enugu Diocese the opportunity to make its contributions to training of medical doctors.
