WHERE ARE THE HOSPITALS? — THEY ARE IN ABIA, NOT IN YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA
The ₦38bn claim is not floating in air. It is tied to specific, visible healthcare interventions already underway across Abia:
1️⃣ 200 PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRES (PROJECT EKWUEME)
Across all 184 wards, facilities are being rebuilt with power, water, equipment and staffing. These are not “one showpiece hospital” projects — they are distributed frontline care infrastructure.
2️⃣ ABSUTH RECONSTRUCTION — ABA
A new hospital complex is rising inside Abia State University Teaching Hospital, doubling tertiary capacity and replacing decades-old structures.
3️⃣ GENERAL HOSPITAL UPGRADES
Formerly moribund state hospitals in Aba and across LGAs have been structurally renovated and re-equipped — operating theatres, wards, diagnostics and utilities restored.
4️⃣ COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES MEDICAL FACILITIES
Demolition and full reconstruction of 70-year-old medical training and service blocks now underway in Aba.
5️⃣ NEW MULTIPURPOSE HOSPITAL (100-BED)
Recently inaugurated modern facility expanding secondary care access in the state.
So the real question is not “Where are they?”
The real question is:
Why pretend that ward-level PHCs, teaching hospital expansion, and statewide general hospital rehabilitation do not count as hospitals?
Healthcare reform is not one ribbon-cut mega-edifice for cameras.
It is systems — distributed, functional, staffed facilities across communities.
Demanding addresses and BOQs is legitimate.
Denying the existence of visible projects is not accountability — it is narrative warfare.
Abia’s health sector moved from decay to reconstruction in under three years.
That is why facilities are reopening, not just being promised.
The hospitals are in Abia.
Patients are already using them.
The reform is real.
AProf Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
