The Kogi state Commissioner for Health, Idris Omede has said that the state diagnostic health centre would be ready for commissioning by middle next year.
The Commissioner who stated this during the federal government good governance tour on the projects in Lokoja said the project cost the state government N1.8 billion.
According to him, the centre will have women images centre, mammography for breast cancer, eco-cardiographic centre and haematology centre, saying that the contract for equiping the centre with modern equipment has already been awarded.
He said the concept for the hospital was informed by the fact that Lokoja was a meeting point of the north coupled with the high volume of patients at the existing hospitals, saying that it will reduce incident of maternal mortality rate in the state as well as neighbouring states.
Dr Idrs said the project which is about 60 percent completion would be operated on public private partnership (PPP), assuring that the project is a top priority of the government
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