President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday opened the newly completed Dialysis Centre at the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Abuja.
The president said that, the centre would greatly assist in the treatment of kidney disease among the members of the armed forces and the public, and that his chief personal physician had checked out the dialysis centre earlier in the day and confirmed it to be ready for use.
Jonathan commended the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, for the effort and said that:
“You have provided this facility, a dialysis centre that will be used by the Defence intelligence community and of course the extended armed forces which we all appreciate so much.
“Within this period whenever you looked at the television screen there were always complaints about people who have kidney problems.
“The first level of intervention is dialysis before you talk about kidney transplant which is more expensive”, said He spoke further: ”Chief of Army Staff, when I am sick I should come to the military hospital. In most countries the president and his family attend the military hospital whenever they are ill.
“So they expect that the military hospital should be among the top hospitals in the country and that should be what we should aspire for.”
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