Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, has said that his administration would continue to partner the private sector towards boosting the economy of the state.
Emmanuel stated this yesterday while performing the ground breaking ceremony of the proposed Thompson & Grace Medical City projects in Afaha Obong, Abak Local Government area of the state.
Performing the ceremony, Deputy Governor of the State, Mr. Moses Ekpo who represented the Governor praised the ingenuity and patriotic spirit of the Group Managing Director of Thompson & Grace, Dr. Isaac Amos for siting the project in Akwa Ibom State.
He assured the proprietors of the Proposed Medical City of the State Government's adequate support to bring the project to fruition.
The governor noted that the project, apart from the medical solutions that the Medical City would bring to the entire African continent, "it is hoped that not less than 35,000 Akwa Ibom State indigenes will assess employment opportunity when the project takes off."
Thompson & Grace Medical City projects include the proposed Medical University, 505 Megawatts Combined Cycle Power Plant and Parenteral Infusion & Dialysis Concentrate Plant, all to be located in a vast expanse of virgin land in Abak, Akwa Ibom State.
Welcoming guests to the event, Dr. Amos said that "the justification for the
establishment of the Thompson & Grace Medical University and its sister entities in the Medical City is part of his company's efforts at promoting and enhancing medical education, clinical research and delivery of health care."
According to him, "through these projects, we the proprietors pledge quality health education standards for our people, employment for our youths and medical practitioners, some of who are currently forced to work in other nations."
Dr. Amos who described the Medical City project as the centre of medical excellence in the world, declared that when it comes on stream, "we would have reduced the need by Nigerians to travel to the United States of America, United Kingdom, India, China, Germany, or any other nation in search of cure and healing."
He added: "no more would our tropical diseases look to temperate regions for help and cure. And no more would our people be victims of preventable, treatable and curable diseases because of ignorance and non-availability of requisite medical training, equipment and infrastructure."
One of project partners, Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Ruzicka, Director, Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany said that promised to deploy experienced medical experts to support the project.
Chiedu Ndubisi, Technical Adviser to the Director General of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) who represented the DG, Mr. Aminu Diko, pledged the support of his Commission to the proprietors of the projects in facilitating their requests to the Federal Government
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