Prof. Abiodun Otegbayo, Chief Medical Director (CMD), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Monday said the hospital’s new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is the best amongst public health institutions in the country.

Otegbayo, who spoke at the commissioning of the renovated and re-equipped ICU center, said with the new facilities now in place, UCH is poised for a better care for the critically ill patients.

The CMD noted that the focus of his administration is to improve on the life of the hospital, adding that the country looks up to the teaching hospital to provide leadership in the health sector.

“Often times, there are cases of needless deaths; it saddens my heart when patients that should be given first class treatment could not get it because of lack of basic equipment that is taken for granted in hospitals of equal status outside the country.

“With these new facilities, we can be sure of near zero death cases henceforth,” Otegbayo said.

The CMD stated that his administration did a complete renovation  and re-equipping of the right wing of the ICU which has not been used for about three years at a cost of about N127 million, which he said were “pooled together from our  internally  generated revenue.”

“We have the human resources; we are training and retraining them. At the same time, we are investing in developing our facilities to maximise the investment in human resources,” the CMD stated

 Otegbayo added that UCH is ready to collaborate with Oyo State government and any other state government that is ready in various areas when such requests are made in order to ease the burden placed on the institution by the high number of patients that thronged the hospital daily.

The equipments commissioned includes seven mechanical turbo power ventilators; six multi-channel invasive monitors; one central monitor; four syringe pumps; four infusion pumps; six SAM-14 suction pumps; six electric beds; six air mattresses and two crash carts.