Kano renovates 300 health facilities to boost healthcare

 

Kano state government has renovated and upgraded about 300 health facilities, mainly primary health centres and provided them wiThequipment, drugs and medical consumables worth billions of naira in the last 34 months.
Equally, the state government recruited thousands of health professionals across several specialties and deployed them to various health facilities in the state, as part of commitment towards improving health outcomes, within the framework of key national and international policies such as the SDGs.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this yesterday at the Development Alternatives Incorporated, Governance Matters Roundtable meeting held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
At the conference, which was also attended by the Minster of Health, Prof Isaac Adewale and Kaduna state governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i among other personalities, Ganduje explained that government’s investment in health was guided by the development of high quality, focused and result-based planning.
“To address gaps in secondary health care, we are working with Dangote Foundation to upgrade Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital. We also completed the abandoned Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital and the Pediatric. We intend to make them referral hospitals and to use them to curtail medical tourism,” he asserted.
“We have since sent a bill to the House of Assembly to ensure that the hospitals attract the best brains, to prevent the personnel from going on strike at will and to ensure that they are managed in a sustainable manner so as to ensure that the investment is not abused”, Ganduje remarked.
The governor stated that through a partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Dangote Foundation, the state government was able to consolidate effort in routine immunization, pointing put his administration achieved seamless transition to 100 percent sustainable financing of the routine immunization program after the expiration of the initial four year Memorandum of Understanding.
“We have also signed another MoU with the two foundations that cover broader health interventions around women and child health”, he said.
He advised the federal government to decentralise management of the health care system in the country to provide room for more effective supervision, monitoring and evaluation and aid efficient planning, development and delivery of health services.

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