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Dr. Chidi Nnabuchi
Medical Director, Asokoro District Hospital
Asokoro, Abuja
Asokoro District Hospital is one of the 14 hospitals managed by the FCTA under the Hospital Management
Board. It is the largest of these hospitals, seeing approximately 12,000 to 14,000 patients each month.
The hospital also serves as a major training centre for medical students, nursing students, and medical
residents in their fellowships. We are a teaching hospital for Nile University of Nigeria, and we have
graduated two sets of medical doctors. Nursing students from Bingham University, FCT Nursing School,
and the Open University Nursing Department also complete their training here.
Our internal medicine department includes specialists such as cardiologists, endocrinologists,
gastroenterologists (myself), nephrologists, and neurologists. The surgery department features general
surgeons, a paediatric surgeon, a urologist, and orthopaedic surgeons. Our paediatric department provides
neonatal services, regular paediatric care, and emergency paediatric services.
Our radiology unit includes a 64-slice CT scan machine, a mammography machine, ultrasound machines, and
digital x-ray services. The ophthalmology department provides both surgical and clinical ophthalmology
services, and we have an optometry section. The hospital also features an oxygen plant that supplies medical
oxygen to our patients and some sister hospitals.
Due to the wide range of services that we offer, and the unreliable power supply from the national grid,
reliable alternative power supply is crucial to our operations as a medical facility. We use two generators: a
500kVA and a 350kVA. However, diesel consumption is costly and strains our budget, so solar power offers
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