Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has approved N7 million for free surgeries for people with ailments such as goiter, cleft and pile in the state.
Niger State commissioner of Health and Hospitals, Dr Mustapha Jubril disclosed this, stating that the surgeries will take place in all the 25 local government areas in the state, in partnership with, Graceland, a non-governmental organisation.
He said the objectives of the free surgery is to lower the burden of diseases that are crippling the performance and production capacity of the people invariably affecting their socio-economic life.
Jubril also stated that the government will complete viable and people-oriented projects that were initiated by the previous administration in the state with a view to boost health care delivery in the state.
In similar note, he stated that the Niger State governor has directed the immediate completion of the Maternal/Neo-natal wing of the Minna General Hospital and the Kutigi General Hospital.
The commissioner revealed that N96million has been approved for the Maternal and Neonatal Hospital and the hospital section is to begin operation by the next few weeks saying that N50million would be used to settle money owed sub-contractors and the remaining N46million would be used for the procurement of critical equipment as well as provision of other utilities such as water and electricity.
Similarly, he noted that N38million has been released for the completion of Kutigi General Hospital abandoned after expending N170million on it by previous governments.
