The Project Manager of Craneburg Construction Company, Muhammad Yamouth, says the ongoing Sen. Oluremi Tinubu Hospital will be completed in seven months and handed over in May 2026.
Mr Yamout said this on Tuesday during a Media Tour of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Correspondents Chapel in Kwara, one of the projects in the Central senatorial district of the state.
According to him, the project started in Oct. 2024 and has about 120 plus admission rooms, and 100 emergency, children and medical doctors room for checking.
“We are planning to finish the project in May 2026 and we are glad to be giving it the most standard evaluation and it will bring about big change in Kwara.
“We are almost 57 per cent done and all materials that will come in from overseas will be here by January and within two to three months, we will close everything.
“The contract include some equipment delivery, but the major ones are with the ministry and they will supply it.
“We also have the diagnostic centre which will be phase 2 and the external wards which are among the phase 1 that we are doing now in terms of fence, gate house, medical gas and biogas”, he added.
In another development, the Matron in charge of the newly-constructed KWASUTH Intensive Care Unit, Abdulrahman Ramat, said the newly supplied equipment helped adult patients who needed a life support machine.
She commended the state government for the support given to the health sector, especially patients with emergency cases who needed immediate care to revive them.
“This unit was opened formally on Aug. 15, 2025. So far, we have four patients which we have transferred to other wards and some already discharged.
“All our beds have their separate machine, both the cardiac monitor, ventilator, drip regulator and suctioning machine, which is everything attached to each bed.
“It gives us easy access as if we are in overseas to monitor our patients conveniently at a go.
“We have five oxygens that we can easily use. All the machines are newly bought by the present administration,” she said.
The matron said the only challenge they had was the absence of an anesthetic doctor due to their importance.
“Someone that will be with us 24 hours because the nurses have started their operation on a 24 hours routine.
“We need to have a stay in doctor for close monitoring of patients and review at every point in time.
“Also, our nurses need to be trained as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses, majority of us are accident and emergency nurses and others from other departments are being deployed here.
“We need to be trained for maximum health care delivery”, she added.
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