Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, on Monday, performed the groundbreaking for the reconstruction of the dilapidated Okpuala Ngwa General Hospital in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of the state.
In a speech at the ceremony, Mr Otti said the project would help to restore quality healthcare services to the area.
He described the hospital as one with historical significance to the people of the old Eastern Ngwa and Abia at large.
He said the Abia founding fathers did their best to maintain public health facilities that served the people, but expressed displeasure that their efforts were not consolidated with the facilities abandoned to depreciate.
“In the olden days, this used to be a major hospital in the whole of Abia and the then Eastern Ngwa area.
