Dr Hassan Ikrama, Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH) Lafia, says the hospital has successfully trained and graduated six consultants through its residency training programme.
The CDM, who disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Thursday, in Lafia, said the hospital graduated one consultant in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department and five others in the department of Family Medicine.
He explained that the specialist hospital is amongst the few State-owned specialist hospitals providing residency training for doctors in the country.
Ikrama said from an initial one department, the hospital now has five departments, adding that the management, under his leadership, was working hard to increase the number of departments that would run the residency programme.
The CMD added that the training was aimed at ensuring that medical doctors attained the height of their careers, stressing that modalities were also being worked out to commence Postgraduate training for other clinical staff.
He assured members of the public that the hospital was now properly equipped and with more qualified manpower, befitting of a specialist hospital, with a view to ensuring better service delivery.
The CMD lauded the state government for the attention it had accorded the hospital through the provision of needed equipment as well as structures, assuring that the management and staff of the hospital were now motivated to be more dedicated to enhancing the health conditions of the people.
The specialist hospital was granted accreditation by the West African College of Surgeons, and other relevant bodies, to run residency training in Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery and Paediatrics.
