News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that a consortium of Plateau indigenous health practitioners (Mr. Pam and Gyang Dareng), who had earlier set-up a state-of-the-art health centre along Bukuru road, have added a dialysis/renal kidney failure centre to their hospital. The dialysis/renal kidney centre said to be worth N10 billion was said to have been commissioned on Thursday this week by retired army veteran. Lieutenant General T. Y. Danjuma at the hospital premises in Bukuru, Plateau state. 

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that a consortium of Plateau indigenous health practitioners (Mr. Pam and Gyang Dareng), who had earlier set-up a state-of-the-art health centre along Bukuru road, have added a dialysis/renal kidney failure centre to their hospital. The dialysis/renal kidney centre said to be worth N10 billion was said to have been commissioned on Thursday this week by retired army veteran. Lieutenant General T. Y. Danjuma at the hospital premises in Bukuru, Plateau state. 


Speaking at the commissioning of the Dee-Medical (Dialysis) Centre, General T. Y. Danjuma, commended the foresight and forward thinking of the individuals, saying that the feat will serve to ameliorate the plight of a lot of patients in the country. He condemned the deplorable state of health institutions in the country, saying that more needs to be done not just by Government but by the citizenry to change the decay within the health industry. He said “one of the challenges facing our country is our lack of maintenance culture, this ill has crippled many viable institutions in Nigeria”. He decried the lack of equipment in most government and private hospitals in the country, saying that a lot needs to be done to better the lives of our population.

In his address, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the centre, Dr Gyang Dareng, said the centre started as a N10 billion project expected to be completed over a 15 years period, adding that phase I, which included OPD and Dialysis centre had been completed. And that the second phase (phase 2), included a complete Diagnostic Centre (MRI, CT-SCAN, MONOGRAM) and research- based laboratory, a histopthology laboratory and the  commencement of a renal transplant programme. Further confirming that, phase 3, would comprise a health care complex with 7 floors, which would have all aspects of medical services housed with separate floors and staff quarters.



He appealed to both the government and investors to seek ways of partnering with the centre to enable it reach its goal of providing health care services of international standard to its citizens -thus making Nigeria a medical tourism destination.

 In a passionate plea, Dr. Dareng appealed to the Federal Government to include dialysis treatment in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for all qualified patients. He went on further to say, it would be a good idea to subsidise dialysis for non-qualified NHIS patients, adding that states and local governments also need to create programmes to subsidise dialysis for people in their states.



Speaking at the commissioning event, the Governor of Plateau state, Da Jonah Jang, charged health care practitioners to join in government’s drive to bring affordable medical care to its citizens. Adding that, his administration places a high premium on the health of its citizens, which he argued was evident in the health care improvement projects across the state.

This would be the first time such high tech medical equipment are being made available for public patronage in Plateau state. Past instances where these equipment have been brought to Plateau state, have been by infuential politicians who use it privately in the confort of their homes.

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T. Y. Danjuma commissions N10 billion dialysis and renal failure centre for two Plateau Doctors in Bukuru