Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe has approved the recruitment of 38 nurses and  32 NYSC doctors, pharmacists, radiographers, and physiotherapists to boost health care delivery in the state.

 

The 38 nurses have just graduated from the Dr. Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery, Damaturu.

 

This was contained in the statement signed by the Director Press and information to the governor, Malam Abdullahi Bego.

 

"The recruitment is intended as a manpower boost for the state’s healthcare sector, as the Gaidam administration continues with the biggest and most far reaching expansion of the sector in the history of our state. The governor has also approved the recruitment of 32 NYSC doctors, pharmacists, radiographers, and physiotherapists into the healthcare service with commensurate professional allowances.

 

"Some may recall that the governor had earlier approved the recruitment of a total of 386 doctors, consultants, nurses and other categories of specialists and professional medical workers for the newly established Yobe University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH), Damaturu which has already commenced the provision of clinical services to the public," he added.

Source : Daily Trust