By VINCENT UJUMADU

AWKA — OFFICIALS of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi are shopping for N2.5 billion special intervention fund to enable the health institution improve facilities at its permanent site in Nnewi.

Chairman of the governing board of the hospital, Prof. Ivara Esu and the Chief Medical Director, Professor Anthony Igwebe observed during their visit to the permanent site, that the delay in moving the hospital to its permanent site was hampering proper service delivery.

Esu, who was one time Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar and former minister of culture and tourism, said that the temporary site of the hospital has got to the limit to which it could grow, and therefore can no longer accommodate more patients.

The implication, he said, is that a lot of patients who need healthcare services are denied access to treatment.

According to him, the N2.5 billion would enable them to complete the prioritized projects at the site to achieve the level of development that would make it possible for partial movement to the permanent site of the hospital as soon as possible.