Kano state commissioner of heath Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso has said that the Ganduje administration had in the last four year employed 3,500 health care workers of various cadres.
He said in the next two to three weeks 300 nurses, midwives and community health care workers would also be employed..
Speaking to news men at a press briefing in Kano Thursday, Getso said Kano has made remarkable progress in all aspects of immunization services from cold chain and logistics, community mobilization, integrated R1 session planning and service delivery, monitoring and supervision introduction of new vaccines among others.
According to him, in the year 2018, the Ganduje administration has recorded tremendous achievements which include; the establishment of Local Government routine immunization coordination centres in all the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano and the installation of 10 new Solar Direct Drive refrigerators at the ward level in addition to sustaining its sourced delivery of vaccines to the last mile.
He however stated that 99.4% of confirmed uncomplicated malaria cases recorded in 2018 were treated with ACTs with about 567 deaths attributable to the disease which in economic terms, malaria morbidity and mortality has led to loss of billions of naira in cost of drugs, hospital stay, man-hour loss and other out of pocket expenses.
He said the Ganduje administration had placed highest priority on saving the lives of Women and children through the provision of essential health services both at the primary and secondary care levels positing that the commitment was affirmed by providing adequate funds for the elimination of malaria in Kano State.
He pointed out that the Ganduje administration had been consistent in implementing policies and programmes aimed at improving the heath status of the people of Kano as demonstrated through many sustainable investments and political commitments in the health care sector.
On polio eradication, the commissioner further revealed that for nearly five years now, Kano has been free of wild polio virus which was a pointer to the fact that Kano has the goal post in sight to attain total eradication and certification that would signal the removal of Nigeria from the list of polio endemic countries.
