- Government Organisation
- Nguru 630261, Yobe, Nigeria

FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE NGURU
ABOUT
Federal Medical Centre, Nguru is a federal government of Nigeria medical centre located in Nguru, Yobe State, Nigeria. The current medical director is Professor Hadiza Usman.
Our centre is the only functional neonatal referral centre in the whole of Yobe State of Nigeria, providing for the need of 17 local government councils. Prior to our contact with Professor Hippolite in 2007, there was no single functional incubator in our centre. Therefore, our special-care-baby-unit was only in a make-shift condition, without good success rate to show. We were, hence, quick to respond to the resolution of the Committee of Chief Executives of Federal Health Institutions (CCEFTHI) of Nigeria for individualized collaboration with Prof Hippolite’s research. Our then Medical Director was in attendance at the CCEFTHI conference in Benin City, where he met with and invited the Imperial College academics. Professor Hippolyte has thus remained a visiting consultant to our SCBU since 2008.
We have been able to build one of the best neonatal centres in the northeast of Nigeria through his consultancy. Our functional incubator capacity grew to 16 by 2012, becoming the largest among the northern Nigerian centres. Our success rate greatly improved as most of the neonates who would come to us were successfully discharged.
Our neonatal mortality rate as of 2007 was higher than the national facility-based average of 254/1000 admissions. However, the recent facility outcome review of 2014 revealed that our neonatal mortality rate has fallen to 143/1000 admissions; 60/1000 without the class of D48 neonates (i.e. neonates that died within 48 hours of presentation). This success is all due to the procedures and technologies Professor Hippolite brought along with his consultancy at our centre.
We currently apply seven out of his nine validated neonatal applications. This includes, amongst others:
- Localized research investigations as a way of improving our local practice and educating colleagues elsewhere. Our center hosted a study that investigated neonatal evening fever syndrome (EFS) and developed the first EFS-resilient nursery for ameliorating neonatal hyperthermia due to EFS.
- We operate two parallel sets of power-banking systems, adequately supporting all our incubators to ensure uninterrupted power supply.
- All our incubators and most of our cots are apnoea-protected using the BM02 systems introduced by Professor Amadi
Our Vision
Past and current efforts being made by developed Western countries to support the development drives of Africa and other resource-constrained countries include academic scholarships. This primarily involves admitting students from developing countries into Western universities to train in academic research using the sophistication, state-of-the-art technologies, and environment available. At the end of training, many of these students often end up staying back in their countries of research studies. Those who would return to their countries of origin, often intimidated by the sophistication of their countries of training, are unable to continue with qualitative research due to the absence of a similar research environment in which they have been trained. These once productive and budding research academics soon get neutralized and diffused into their countries’ nominal research settings, becoming highly unproductive and inactive.
The fact is that it will normally take exceptional quality for these returning students, being employed by the local superiors, to translate the elements of their sophisticated training into a technologically backward setting. The overall result is a situation where huge sums of money are spent by the developing countries and their international funders on research training, but little progress is being made towards the technological independence of these countries. This skill-transfer model is expensive and impacts only a very few set of individual foreign students per unit of time. We think that this model is becoming obsolete. Hence, if rapid technological growth is desired in these countries, a new radical model must evolve.
At the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London, we are trying a new model that would reverse the trend that moves young people from developing countries to our sophisticated technological environment and highly advanced research. This could be a model where our research is rather moved to meet the people in their own environment, challenging them to push the boundaries of their technological needs using materials that are local to them. In this model, the students’ coursework in preparation for research takes place within the Imperial setting to maintain our teaching standards. However, the research challenge and projects are derived from contemporary needs local to the environment of the student’s origin. Volunteering researchers take up local research challenges to be implemented using local content. As many research students as possible would be tasked with a number of related aspects of the projects, being supervised by the Principal visiting (PVR) researcher. This creates the opportunity for relatively more students to come in contact with the PVR, learning how their locally available materials can be investigated to develop a technological solution. Imperial researchers could be awarded fixed term grants for multiple students from the same region to set the tone for tackling local needs. Upon graduation from research degrees, the students could be retained in the project within their own country or region to progress on their research dissertations, either within academia or industry.
Present Mission
The creation of a sustainable low-cost “first-seven-days-of-life” Isolation unit at a Nigerian tertiary centre supplemented by a low-cost community-empowered neonatal emergency transport system and a PHC-operated neonatal basic care.
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The Federal Medical Centre Nguru in Nigeria provides a range of medical services, including outpatient and inpatient care, diagnostic services, surgeries, maternal and child health services, immunizations, and emergency care.
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