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Yobe Seeks FG’s Support In Re-positioning Healthcare Systems

Yobe State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently reposition deplorable healthcare facilities in the state. Governor Ibrahim Gaidam made the appeal on … Continue reading Yobe Seeks FG’s Support In Re-positioning Healthcare Systems


yobe-gaidamYobe State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently reposition deplorable healthcare facilities in the state.

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam made the appeal on Monday in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, in a meeting with the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, who was in the state to access the situation of the healthcare facilities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The Governor said that the insurgency had grounded most healthcare facilities in the state thereby affecting the entire healthcare system.

He said that despite the tremendous efforts made in the health sector by the State Government, a lot needed to be done to improve the health needs of the people.

‘Occasional Wind’

The Governor, represented by his Deputy, Abubakar Aliyu, said that the acts of terror of the Boko Haram sect had led to destruction of several health facilities in Gujba and Gulani Local Government Areas of the state while the ones in Damaturu and other major towns of the state, had been over stretched by the accumulated number of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

According to Governor Gaidam, the State Government had upgraded and restructured healthcare facilities at the state specialist’s hospital as well as the construction of 200 bed capacity in the state capital with the hope of meeting the healthcare needs of the people.

The Minister of Health, however, said that his visit to the state was timely as he was in Yobe for assessment purpose with a view to upgrading the needed facilities.

The Minister said that President Muhammadu Buhari was determined to reposition healthcare facilities across the country with emphasis on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, which were bedeviled by the Boko Haram insurgency.

Attention on such upgrade, he said, would focus on the primary and secondary healthcare systems as such would tell positively on the lives of the common man.

The Minister said that President Buhari’s administration would work assiduously towards improving the health situation, pointing out that the government would provide mobile ambulances, urgent health care needs, as well as potable water.

On the Lassa fever epidemic, Professor Adewole described it as an ‘occasional wind’ which the present administration would work hard to fizzle out of the country permanently.

The Minister also visited some IDP camps in Damaturu where he assured them of the Federal Government’s support in the improvement of their well being.

The Minister would proceed to Adamawa and Borno States for similar assessment tour of the insurgency prone states of the North-East geopolitical zones.