FCT, Abuja -                        The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to rehabilitate and equip the national orthopaedic hospitals in Igbobi, Lagos State and Daura, Katsina State.

The call followed the adoption of a motion moved by Mr Ademorin Kuye at the plenary on Wednesday.

Moving the motion, Kuye noted that the orthopaedic hospital in lgbobi was the foremost orthopaedic specialist institution in Africa and the pioneering hospital in the field of orthopaedics, plastic surgery and arthroplasty sports medicine in the West African sub-region.

The lawmaker recalled that the hospital started as a rehabilitation camp for wounded soldiers during the Second World War in 1945.

He said, “If this foremost orthopaedic hospital is equipped with up-to-date medical equipment, it will regain its lost glory and be able to attract qualified surgeons who had left for other better equipped hospitals, thereby helping to reduce the number of amputees who turn to street beggars.”

Adopting the motion, the lawmakers resolved to task the Federal Government to “embark on massive recruitment of specialist surgeons to enable the hospital to meet the demands of its patients.”

They also urged the Federal Ministry of Health to “increase the number of defibrillators- light weight, battery operated portable device that checks and restore heart rhythm and shock in the hospital.”