By: ALI ABDULLAHI GARKO
In efforts to enhance the effective and efficient health care service delivery in the State, the Kano State Government has pledged to upgrade four hundred and eighty four(484) ward’s health facilities across the fourty four (44) local government areas in the State
The Director General Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board Dr, Nasir Muhammad Mahmud disclosed this while commissioning the ATFC Structure and the Graduation ceremony of thirty (30) community health extension workers organized by Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF)Doctors Without Borders in collaboration with Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board held at Rijiyar Lemo primary health care facility in Fagge local government area
The Director General who reaffirmed the commitments of Abba Kabir Yusuf led’s administration towards provision of adequate health equipment,drugs and other materials related to health matters for the improvement of health conditions of the State citizenry added that government will continue to collaborate with the development partners in this direction
Turning to the graduants the Director General Dr,Nasir Muhammad urged them to always put what they learnt into practice for the benefit of the State populace
He then expressed appreciation with the efforts of the MSF Doctors Without Borders for their tremendous support in uplifting the health sector in the State
“As you can see this health facility of Rijiyar Lemo has been upgraded to a standard primary health care and we are very happy and grateful to the MSF Doctors Without Borders for this collaboration and tremendous support to us” DG Nasir
This has become to the right time when this administration of Abba Kabir Yusuf is planning to ensure that the entire 484 ward’s health facilities are upgraded to a standard and we have already gone far for this arrangement and identified whatever needs to be done to upgrade them to the standard and very soon the project will commence and completed for the benefit of all ” DG added
In their separate remarks,the project coordinator MSF Dr,Hemmed M Lukonge and the Manager MSF Academy Jane Munge said they reconstruct and equipped the part of the Rijiyar Lemo primary health care facility to complement government’s efforts towards boosting health care service delivery especially for the benefit of women and children and among others
The occasion was blessed with distribution of Awards of Excellence to the dignitaries by MSF in which the Director General Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board Dr, Nasir Muhammad Mahmud is among the recipient of the Award
