FG Earmarks N80billion for Health Facilities in North-east

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has revealed that the federal government would expend N80 billion to rebuild the health infrastructure destroyed by insurgency in the North-east states of the country.
Adewole said a study of the needs assessment was carried out in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe states shortly after his recent tour of the states as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Minister, spoke on Tuesday, April 19, at a post-insurgency rebuilding conference tagged: “First Annual Dialogue on Rebuilding Borno” organized by the state government in collaboration with AOA Global in Abuja.

He said the rebuilding efforts expected to start soon, would be launched in Borno, and would lead to the establishment of a trauma centre in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

In the next 100 days, he said, some children would be picked by the ministry from the over 200,000 in various IDPs in the North-east.

The minister told the gathering that there had been a “great level of disconnect” between the federal government and the North-east states, as his recent visit to Yobe State was the first by any health minister in since the state’s creation.