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Government budgets N500 million on health, plans to create awareness on diseases

He said that this administration will embark on awareness campaigns to prevent and protect indigenes from communicable and non communicable diseases.

 

The Executive Secretary of the Kano state Primary health care management board, Dr Nasir Muhammad has stated that the state government plans on upgrading its facilities and has proposed to spend over N500 million which will cut across the 44 local governments.

Nasir said this during the defense of the states fiscal budget in presence of the state's house of assembly. He said that this administration will embark on awareness campaigns to prevent and protect indigenes from communicable and non communicable diseases.

He further explained that the campaign was part of measures to ensure healthy and productive environment in the state.

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