Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said plans are on to establish a medical school, an infectious diseases hospital and a state-of-the-art renal and cardiac centre.
The governor, who spoke yesterday in Sokoto at the opening of the 58th meeting of the National Council on Health, said the health centres would provide training and research and complement health facilities.
He said his administration introduced policies that impacted on the health sector. Tambuwal said one of such was the introduction of the community midwifery scheme to train midwives and traditional birth attendants, who would serve at the community levels.
“This programme will, in due course, be expanded to achieve reduction in maternal, infant and child morbidity and mortality,” he said.
According to him, the government has intensified health surveillance and preventive mechanisms, which have resulted in Sokoto being certified as Polio, Ebola and Lassa fever free.
The governor said the state had entered into a partnership with the Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) to improve the quality of healthcare.
“The areas include manpower training, health services delivery, rural outreach programme, road traffic accident and emergency response care and primary healthcare coverage,” he added.
Commissioner for Health Dr. Balarabe Shehu Kakale said following the commitment of the present administration and its partners, the number of children immunised against polio and other childhood killer diseases had increased.
By: Adamu Suleiman, Sokoto
The Nation News
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