Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said his
administration has expended over N1 billion for the procurement and
distribution of drugs, medical equipment to secondary and primary health care
facilities to improve their diagnostic and management capacity......
Speaking recently during the convention of over 3,880 Kano
state Volunteer Community Mobilizers (VCMS) and distribution /launching of Anti
malarial Commodities and other Health Intervention held in Government House,
Ganduje said his administration has keyed into the Federal Government agenda of
revitalizing the primary health care in Nigeria.
According to him, “Kano state government with the support of
our partners has upgraded, renovated and equipped more than 120 primary health
facilities across the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano state to make basic
health care available to our people.
“In our determination to further deliver on our campaign
promises and to ensure that Kano people benefit maximally from the health care
service delivery, the present administration has embarked on many beneficial
and far-reaching health intervention ranging from infrastructure and equipment
upgrade, health care financing to manpower development.”
He mentioned some of the interventions to include, “upgrade
and renovation of Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in collaboration with
Dangote Foundation–the work is estimated to cost billions of Naira and when
completed, the hospital will be of international standard.
“Procurement and distribution of drugs, medical equipments
worth over N1 billion, secondary and primary health care facilities to improve
the diagnostic and management capacity; establishment of state Contributory
Health care Management Agency; and signing into law of the Health Trust Fund
and also signing into law the Private Health Institution Management Law which
will govern private hospitals.”
Ganduje recalled before his administration, the state
government was faced with a number of challenges in the health sector, such as
high incidence of Malaria and other communicable diseases; high prevalence of
malnutrition among children under five years.
He further mentioned other challenges to include dilapidated
health infrastructure, especially, at the primary health care level; inadequate
qualitative specialized health care; human resource gaps at secondary and
primary health care levels and lack of sustainability in health care financing.
He added that, “to tackle this and many more of health
system challenges, the state government has been expending colossal resources
both human and material to revamp the health system.
“It is on record that between January to August, 2017 alone,
Kano state government and its partners has spent over N700 million on the
procurement and distribution of drugs, insecticides, treated bed nets, Rapid
Diagnostic Test (RDT) for malaria, among other things for the prevention and
control of malaria in Kano state.
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