Respite may have come the way of Nigerians struggling with medical issues as Apex hospital has commenced construction of a state of the art, Artificial Intelligence-assisted diagnostic centre in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
Founder of Apex hospital system, Prof Uchenna Nwosu who disclosed this at a press briefing in Awka on Friday, said the tertiary healthcare project costing over N3b, would take care of all cardiological issues and Intensive Care Unit deliveries.
Prof Nwosu began the tertiary healthcare and intensive care unit project in partnership with SEGOFS Energy Group in a bid to provide the requisite medical facilities and divert medical tourism inward, as against the current trend of massive out-bound medical tourism due largely to lack of good medical facilities at home.
But, more importantly, he was moved to build the Ai assisted diagnostic centre to provide speedy healthcare for patients who suffer cardiovascular problems, including stroke and other cardiological problems, he stressed.
“Investment yield has never been my objective. If I had considered investment yields, I would not have started my private hospital in Igbo Ukwu many years ago. There are diagnostic centres that have no hospitals and there are hospitals that don’t have diagnostic centres; now we are going to have a hospital that will not only have an intensive care unit but a diagnostic centre so that when you have issues, you can go from the intensive care unit to the diagnostic centre,” Nwosu explained.
“We are now providing facilities so that people will access healthcare especially those who have cardiac related issues including strokes within two hours.”
Founder of SEGOFS Energy Group, the Apex hospital partners,Chief Barth Nwibe, said his foundation decided to partner with the Apex system in order to bring home healthcare delivery to the people of the State and provide rapid response to the people.
“We invest in diagnostic services for the benefit of Anambra people and Nigerians in general and as part of the think-home philosophy of the Anambra State government. Those who have businesses outside, try to bring them home to boost the economy and provide employment,” he said.
“We are investing close to N3b in (the project) and will ensure the completion.The benefit of the diagnostic centre will be that it will help the specialists to save patients’ lives as all the needed examinations will show exactly what the problems are for proper treatment; the things that made you travel to India or South Africa will be here. CT scan and other testing machines for stroke and cardiac arrest will be attended to within hours.”
