Kano State government has approved the employment of 50 medical doctors to manage the affairs of each local government for improved service delivery in the state.
The Governor of Kano State Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje made this Known today shortly after the commissioning of the New office complex of the State Agency for the Control of AIDS.
The Governor who was represented at the occasion by the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa said the government is doing everything possible to improve the health and wellbeing of citizens, especially people living with HIV/AIDS. Adding that in 2021 budgetary allocation, the agency has got the adequate fund to implement its activities towards meeting the United Nation target of 95- 95-95 to end the epidemic in 2030
Dr. Tsanyawa said the government has approved the establishment of one functional Primary Health Centers in 484 wards in the drive to ensure that health care delivery is made available to the doorstep of individuals.
He said that the state government will soon decongest Specialist and Teaching Hospitals in the state through the upgrade of 4 emirates health care facilities to 400-bed capacity Specialist Hospital.
He then Urged the staff of the Agency to make good use of the new office complex.
Earlier the Director-General Kano State Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr. Sabitu Y. Shu’aibu Shanono said this world AIDS day is exceptional ” we seen how His Excellency introduces social support for people living with HIV/AIDS in addition to all HIV response”
Dr. Shanono said the government spends huge investment in the provision of testing kits and consumables to the facilities and whoever comes to the hospital gets free HIV testing and the positive ones referred to comprehensive treatment centers for free medications.
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In a statement by KSACA public relations officer Aminu Bello Sani said the DG thanked the state government under the leadership of his excellency Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for the accorded priority to improve the health indices in the state.
