The Medical Director of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Prof. Icha Inalegwu Onche, has said that while the hospital was waiting for a take-off grant, the N600 million received is not enough.

Onche disclosed this at the Conference Hall of the hospital at a press briefing with journalists, adding that they need a healthy environment and healthy people.

He said the take-off grant was important to tackle the problems faced by the hospital.

On the operational duty of the hospital, he said that the hospital will not treat patients with cancer, diarrhea, and related diseases, explaining that the hospital will treat patients with fractures, accidents, joint pains, and related ailments.

The medical director disclosed that out of the 350 staff needed to run the hospital, the senior staff are 134, while the junior staff are 65.

In his vote of thanks, Chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Plateau Council, Polycarp Auta, expressed his delight with the media in his interaction.

Auta told him that journalists would cooperate with him, urging him to always leave his door open to journalists so that the hospital would wax stronger and his name would be written in gold.