The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital , established in 2019 and became functional in 2020, received a boost yesterday as medical experts drawn from various international institutions began training for its paediatrics, aimed at consolidating the service in the country.
Nwankwo told reporters in Enugu that, inspite of the country’s population; put at over 200 million, there was no single organised paediatrics ICU in Nigeria, even with the danger posed on medical health care of her infants, children and adolescents. “So what I have done is to begin to make an inroad into secondary and tertiary care. I thought that coming to start a Pediatric ICU is the way to go. We have been doing this for years. I started collecting supplies from the hospitals that I work in America. In 2019, we came here for the first time to establish the skeletal structure of the pediatrics ICU. It is an ICU that has everything that any ICU in the world can have. We came with about 10 people from the United States of America.
Nwankwo praised the Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for the support in actualising the project, saying that since 2019 when the idea began, the governor had catered for the need of the expatriates in the mission.