OpeOluwani Akintayo
Lagos — After a successful commissioning and handing over of 10 projects under its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR initiative last year, TotalEnergies and partners have again started off 2022 with the commissioning of four projects in the South-Eastern part of the country.
The projects ranged from maternal and child referral centre, mammography centre, and solar-powered treated borehole water facilities.
Commissioned on the1st of April, was a maternal and child referral centre built inside the General Hospital, Baraki, Arochukwu, Abia State.
The project is a fully equipped maternal and child referral centre, complete with state-of-the art facilities, including a main reception and waiting area of 30 persons sitting capacity, quards for children, mother and neo natal, theatre, recovery and stabilisation rooms, 2 consultation rooms, nurse bay, technical room, medical record office, equipped laboratory, equipped modern theatre, delivery room with 2 Nos multi-purpose delivery beds, 2 nos. pharmacy store, 2 nos. changing room, borehole installation, power supply of 60KVA generator, solar power of 15KVA installed, toilets for staff, patients; with one dedicated disabled toilets, fully furnished with relevant seats, tables, examination bed, and air conditioning equipment. 
It also has a well landscaped environment with concrete interlocking, parking lots, driveway to emergency area, walkways round the hospital, water points at strategic locations, perimeter fence with installed lighting points, alongside equipped laundry section.
TotalEnergies and Partners also commissioned and handed over of a mammography centre at Imo state Teaching Hospital, IMSUTH.
Dr. Prosper Success Ohanwawa, Commissioner of Health for the state, said the facility will help in early detection which will in turn mitigate death cases arising from breast cancer while Dr. Ifeanyi Nwamba, Chief Medical Director, IMSUTH in his welcome address, said provision of the facility by TotalEnergies and partners, demonstrated deep commitment to the state.
The state-of-the-art facility includes a main reception and waiting area of 21 persons sitting capacity, radiologist’s office, mammography technicians’ bay and changing room, two patients’ changing rooms, clinical examination room, treatment room and others.
The treatment room houses state-of-the-art equipment, including the Bard Magnum Breast Lump Biopsy Set for image-guided breast lump biopsies, as well as the Senographe Pristina 3D equipment, which delivers 3D imaging at lowest radiation exposure with superior diagnostic accuracy in the detection of breast cancer. This equipment offers Digital Breast Tomosyntheses and Stereotaxy for enhanced image-guided biopsy and has capacity to process 120 examinations per day. It is ideal for screening exercises. The facility comes complete with a 40kva generator for stable power supply.
Both Nawfia Anambra state and Nnebukwu, Oguta community in Imo state, whose primary source of water is the stream and rainwater, now have access to clean water powered by 26 solar panels with a 25-year warranty lifespan. However, inauguration of the project at Nawfia scheduled for Friday, April 8, 2022 had to be deferred due to IPOB stay-at-home order occasioned by the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which came up same day.
The water project at Nnebukwu is a containerised treatment plant, with aeration tanks, dosing pumps, tanks and fittings, mechanical and electrical installations, four 10, 000 litres G-PEE tanks, including 8 dispensing points connected into the community.
His Royal Highness of Nnebukwu autonomous community, HRH Eze John Ikechukwu Ezigwe appreciated TotalEnergies, NNPC and partners for citing such laudable project in the community.
“We want to thank TotalEnergies, NNPC and partners for bringing this project to our community. This is the first time we will have such, and we are happy,” he said, promising to protect the project.
Hon. Stephen Akunna, S.A Oil and Gas to Chairman of the Local government described the project as a “highly coveted”, one.
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