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General News of Sunday, 11 July 2021

Source: thenationonlineng.net

Sani-Bello has reversed bad maintenance culture in Niger - Commissioner

Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello

The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr Muhammad Makunsidi, said the state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has broken the jinx of bad maintenance culture in the state by uplifting and renovating hospitals and other public infrastructure across the state.

Speaking during the handing over of the newly renovated Jummai Babangida Aliyu Hospital for Women and Children by the contractor, Makunsidi stated that upliftment and renovation are currently ongoing at some hospitals across the state.

He said these hospitals include the Minna General Hospital, Kotangora General Hospital, IBB Hospital and Tunga Magajiya Hospital.

Makunsidi reiterated the determination of the state government not to leave any project it started or took over uncompleted at the end of its tenure in 2023.

The Commissioner lamented that the public and health Infrastructure had been left to decay for a long time without adequate attention, adding that the government is trying its best to address the decay but they cannot all be addressed at a go.

“Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello has reversed the bad maintenance culture we have in the country with the pilot programme of renovation of Jummai Babangida Aliyu Hospital for Women and Children. For the first time in the history of the state, we have a facility manager who is managing our projects.

“The building you are seeing was started by the last administration, which this administration completed but we saw the need to embark on the renovation of hospitals in the state. We wanted to paint the hospital but we discovered that the hospital needed more than painting. So, we ended up on holistic renovation of the hospital and provision of other facilities that are lacking in the hospital,” the commissioner said.

The commissioner disclosed that the Jummai Babangida Aliyu Hospital for Women and Children has the best neonatal centre in Africa.