Anambra First Lady, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has officially inaugurated a new Implant Facility and Healthy Living Shop at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOU), Awka.
She was also invested as the matron of pregnant women and children by the management of the hospital in recognition of her support to the health facility.
After her investiture ceremony held at COOUTH, Mrs Soludo also commissioned the new Implant and Healthy Living Shop of the hospital and took a tour of the facility.
Addressing the gathering, Mrs Soludo commended the Chief Medical Director of the health facility, Dr Maureen Umeakuewulu, for transforming the hospital within six months in office.
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She affirmed her commitment to standing with the management and staff of the teaching hospital in ensuring that no woman or child in Anambra State is left behind in the pursuit of quality healthcare.
In her remarks, the Chief Medical Director of COOUTH, Dr Umeakuewulu, explained that the hospital is shifting from a purely therapeutic model to a holistic and preventive one, and that is why a healthy living shop has been opened in the facility to provide dietary guidelines and a first-of-its-kind Implant Shop in the Southeast.
“Apart from treating and making diagnoses, we have to look backwards to know the genesis of what is happening to us. The period is apt for us to look into preventive medicine.
” So we opened a Healthy Living Shop in our hospital. There are dietitians there who will teach you how to make the food, how to take the food and the proportion to take”
Dr Umeakuewulu disclosed that with the commissioning of the Implant Shop at COOUTH, a comprehensive, sterilised set of various implants is brought directly to the operating theatre, which gives surgeons the luxury to choose the best-fitting Implant during procedures.
According to her, it will significantly improve surgical precision and patient outcomes, adding that the hospital plans to make this service available to other hospitals in the Southeast region.
She appreciated Governor Chukwuma Soludo for the wonderful Interventions he made in the health facility that have transformed the hospital and increased patient inflow.
For his part, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, acknowledged the good works of Governor Soludo in the facility for the past four years, including construction of roads within the hospital, payment of the highest medical residency training fund (MRTF) in Nigeria for resident doctors, construction of the Trauma Centre at COOUTH.
