Description
Tolani E - The Federal Medical Centre, Asaba was established on the 12th August 1998 as a consequence of the Federal Government of Nigeria policy to setup a Federal Medical Centre in states where a Federal Teaching Hospital is non-existent. The institution tool over its current site from the central hospital. Asaba which itself metamorphosed from the colonial cottage \hospital of the Mid-Western region with its foundation stone was laid by the then western Region Commissioner for Health, Mr J. Adigun, in March, 1962 with a thirty bed complement. It was at the creation of Delta State in 1991 that the cottage Hospital was rechristened Asaba Central Hospital and Upgraded to provide Primary Preventive and Specialized Healthcare services to Asaba and environs albeit grossly ill- quipped to carry out such services.