The Sokoto State government has stated that it is committed to investing in and improving the healthcare system in the state, News About Nigeria reports.
The Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, disclosed this while speaking at a reception organised in honour of the outgoing registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr. Abubakar Faruk, on Sunday.
He noted that his administration will equip the state’s health training institutions with ultra-modern equipment to enhance teaching and learning so they can produce highly qualified manpower for the state.
While describing the lack of modern teaching and learning equipment in the state-owned health institutions as one of the major obstacles to achieving effective teaching in line with extant global best practices, the governor assured the people that his administration would change the trend.
The governor further noted that his administration has recently recruited over 800 nurses and midwives who had been waiting for employment for the past nine years.
This move, according to him, is geared towards meeting the hitherto dire need for manpower in the state’s health sector for effective service delivery.
He stated, “We cannot continue with obsolete teaching equipment in our health training institutions when technology is moving fast in the area of digital and state-of-the-art equipment.
“Improving our health sector remains one of our top priorities, as it constitutes one of our nine-point smart agendas for the state.
“I want to assure you that this administration would tap from the wealth of experience of the outgoing registrar for the benefit of our state,” the governor promised.”
