Kano procures N2bn specialised hospital equipment

Kano State government has procured specialised equipment worth N2 billion for installation at the Giginyu and Zoo road specialist hospitals.
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he equipment are CT scan machines, mammography machines, digital X-ray machines, fluoroscopy machines, reverse osmosis machine, magnetic resonance imaging machine, among others.

They were procured to furnish the two hospitals inherited as abandoned projects, but completed by the Ganduje administration in less than two years.

Speaking while inspecting the equipment late Tuesday evening, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje said his administration was determined to improve the wellbeing of people in the state by making long-lasting investment in the health sector.

“Besides completing the two hospitals in the city, we have also completed about 100 or so health facilities in our local governments, as part of steps we have taken to reposition healthcare services delivery in our state,” the governor said.

Governor Ganduje used the occasion to launch the distribution of medical equipment and maternal child health and anti-malarial drugs worth N600 million, to 1,020 selected primary and secondary health facilities across the state.

He thanked the DFID, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria, through the National Malaria Elimination Programme, for collaborating with the state in providing funds for purchase of the items.

Conducting the governor round, the state commissioner for health, Kabir Ibrahim Getso, explained that not too long ago, the state government provided equipment worth over N1 billion and N900 million worth of drugs, to hospitals in the state.

He stated that the government was operating “no embargo on the employment of critical manpower for health sector and within the last three months of 2016.”