Hospital Building Collapses In Abia

The Accident, Emergency and ICU building of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia, Abia State still under construction has reportedly collapsed in the early hours of Thursday.

The incident, according to the Chief Medical Director Professor Onyebuchi Azubuike, happened between 1am and 2am on Thursday.

He said the structure had been under construction since 2019.

Speaking with newsmen on the development on Thursday, Prof. Onyebuchi expressed gratitude to God that no life was lost in the incident.

He said: “I thank God no life was lost. We have scarce resources in the country at the moment. We should be having value for money.

“So if anything like this has happened, I feel sad that the scarce resources that we have is going this way.

“We are looking at it. It just happened. We are going to have several meetings on this and find out what has gone wrong so that we can prevent that from happening again. We have learnt a lesson from that.

“The building is still under construction and has not been handed over to us. So it’s still with the people handling it. Assuming it was handed over to us, then the patients and staff are there, then it collapses and kill people. I thank God no life was lost. We will see and get to the bottom of what has happened.