The Royal Father of Nnewi, His Royal Highness, Igwe Dr KON Orizu 111 on Thursday applauded the new Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Dr Joe Ugboaja over the developmental strides at the permanent site of the health institution.
The highly revered monarch who was accompanied by the Obi of Umudim, Obi Okafor (Amaukwu), Obi Nnewichi, Obi George Onyekaba (Obidiugwu), members of HRH Royal Cabinet, President Generals and other stakeholders in the industrial town, commended the CMD during his working visit to the hospital.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the health institution, Dr Joe Ugboaja and his management team conducted the monarch and his entourage round some of the ongoing projects in the hospital.
What became glaring to the Igwe’s entourage was the extent of construction activities going on simultaneously at the hospital site.
Some of the ongoing projects inspected by Igwe Nnewi include laboratory building complex nearing completion, huge drainage system to tackle erosion menace, adminstrative block which has been abandoned for long, GOPD and twenty roads under construction.
The Nnewi royal father, at the end of the visit, commended the new kid on the block, Dr. Ugboaja, for the unprecedented development taking place at the permanent site of NAUTH.
Dr. KON Orizu recalled that the new CMD promised him before he assumed leadership of the hospital that movement of NAUTH to her permanent site would occupy a front burner in his administration.
Igwe Nnewi said with relish that he is satisfied and happy with infrastructural development occasioned by the new CMD at the permanent site.
The President General of Uruagu-Nnewi, Chief Innocent Okoli also thumbed up the NAUTH’s new CMD for putting the hospital on a right footing.
Also, the President General of Nnewichi-Nnewi, Hon Soge Egbuna commended the CMD for the observable transformation that has taken place in NAUTH few weeks into his tenure.
In the same vein, Obi Umudim-Nnewi, His Highness Obi Bennett Okafor and Obi Nnewichi-Nnewi, His Highness Obi George Onyekaba expressed satisfaction with the pace of infrastructural development taking place in NAUTH.
The CMD of NAUTH, Prof Joe Ugboaja in his brief speech thanked Igwe Nnewi, Dr KON Orizu who he described as a father and a living sage for creating time to visit NAUTH.
He attributed all the positive development taking place in the hospital to the collective efforts of all the staffers of the institution.
Prof Ugboaja while appreciating the good people of Nnewi especially the stakeholders who have indicated their intentions to partner with NAUTH restated his vision of making the health institution one of the first five teaching hospital in the nation.