...Approves 50% electricity subsidy for public hospitals
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa Wednesday commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply at the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarization project at the dialysis unit comprising a solar powered borehole backed by a 10.2 KVA inverter which comes with a lithium battery at Abdulkareem Jika Yusuf COVID-19 Intervention Centre stressing that the “ministry is working on an executive bill to Mr. President.
According to him “we are going to change the names of our Federal Hospitals to Specialist Hospitals to expand care delivery and destigmatize hospital so that every body can come here, though the core services will still be Psychiatric, but then changing the numenclature gives them the liberty to continuously expand the services.
Dr. Alausa who expressed confidence in the management of the hospital led by Dr. Aishatu Yusha’u Armiyau said “the success in the Hospital is a testimony to what our President, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised Nigerians during his campaign he said ”
At the National Eye Centre, Kaduna the Minister commissioned Dr. G.O Adejor Optical Show Room and Dr. M.B Alhassan Diagnostic and Laser Unit.
Earlier the Health Minister for State who announced 50% Electricity subsidy public Hospitals maintained that the warning strike by the Doctors is complicating issues for the release of the kidnapped doctor from the Eye Centre assured that the Doctor will be back soon .
On mass exodus of Medical staff to other nations of the world, he said there is a strategy on engaging medical personnel in the Diaspora assuring that despite the poor structure inherited, the President is a motivator and engaging state governments to expand projects on Health Science Universities to sustain the rise of health sciences enrollment from 24000 annually to 100, 000.
Earlier in her address of welcome, the Acting Chief Medical Director Dr. Aminatu Abdulrahman said National Eye Centre was Established in 1979 with a mandate to provide of specialist eye care services, training of manpower and research for Nigeria
According to her, the hospital has 300 beds situated on 514 hectares of land
and which receive referrals from 36 states of Nigeria and Federal Capital Territory and neighbouring countries
With a total of 640 staff – 369 (clinical) 281 (non-clinical) Dr. Abdulrahman said about 53,406 out patients have been attended to and 4653 surgeries were performed in the year 2023.