Govt earmarks N415.8m to boost health-care sector
A total of N415.8million has been earmarked by the Kebbi state governor to boost the health-care sector.
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Kambaza told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Monday that the amount would be spent on the rehabilitation of 13 hospitals and primary health-care centres as well as provision of drugs and recruitment of qualified personnel.
The commissioner said the state had not failed in the prompt settlement of counterpart funding to national and foreign health-care delivery partners.
He said a new maternity facility would be provided in Argungu in addition to the rehabilitation of the general hospital, stressing that the Sir Yahaya Memorial Hospital in the Kebbi metropolis would be expanded.
He said the amount would also be spent on the rehabilitation of general hospitals in the first phase of the project that included those in Bagudo, Kamba, Jega, Dirin Daji, Zuru, Koko, Yauri, Zauro and Kambaza.
He said other hospitals and health-care centres would be rehabilitated in the second phase of the project.
He said Saudi Arabia had assisted in the treatment of 5,000 eye patients, while 7,000 were operated upon.
The commissioner assured that the state government was ready to sustain its partnership with foreign countries to improve the health sector.
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