HEALTH IS INDEED WEALTH AS PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRES GETS DELIVERY OF N300m EQUIPMENT IN NASARAWA STATE


Over 700 Primary Health Care Centres across the thirteen local government areas of Nasarawa State have taken delivery of Hospital Equipment worth 300 million Naira for quality service delivery.

The hospital equipment were procured through the Federal Government World Bank Assisted Programme, Save One Million Lives in collaboration with the Nasarawa State Government.

Speaking during the distribution of the equipment to the Local Government Coordinators of Primary Health Care Centres in Lafia, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Mal. Isiyaku Abari said this is one of the major intervention by the state government to transform the health sector as well as to make it affordable and accessible to the people.

Abari maintained that, the intervention was the second under the administration of our amiable Governor Abdullahi Sule to transform the health sector.

He noted that the state government had carried out renovations in over 17 General and Specialist Hospitals in the state.

He urged the benefitting Local Government Heads of Primary Health Care Centres to ensure judicious use of the equipment as the state government would not hesitate to sanction any reported case of diversion of the items.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Save One Million Lives, Nasarawa State, Sardauna Ali pointed out that the equipment would go a long way in reducing the rate of maternal and child mortality especially in the rural areas.

Ali gave the breakdown of the hospital equipment to include delivery beds, suction machines, mucus extractors, wall monitors, thermometers, trolleys, weighing scales and stethoscopes among others.

Musa Abdullahi
Ministry of Health