Senator Jibrin hails President Tinubu’ on 7 mega projects in Kano hospital
Kola Oyelere Kano
Deputy Senate President ( DSP) Senator Barau I. Jibrin,has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on seven mega projects
,worth billion of Naira, initiated at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH),
He then emphasizing that President Tinubu’ s commitments to providing a sound healthcare delivery system in the country.
,” The aimed of this mega projects,is to improving healthcare delivery system in this country.,as well addressing jappa syndrome among medical personnel adding that this is in line with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on healthcare delivery
Senator Barau was accompanied to the AKTH by four Senators, including the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumail; Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Muntari Dandutse; Chairman of the Senate Committee on North West Development Commission, Senator Babangida Hussaini and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Abdulhamid Malam-Madori.
The seven projects include: construction and equipping of cardiothoracic centre, construction of roads at College of Health Sciences, BUK (AKTH Premises), construction of students’ Hostel at College of Nursing Sciences,
Interlocking of Department of Radiology, interlocking of S. S. Wali Centre, interlocking of Speciality Clinic Annexe, construction of classrooms and offices at School of Health Information Management (SHIM), and construction and equipping of paediatric Complet
According to him,”By the time we develop our teaching hospitals to international standard, which is the way we are doing now, nobody would like to go outside to seek for medical check up or will go outside the country to go and work ”
” What we are doing now, in terms of trying to further develop, make this institution an advanced, specialised hospital, is in tune with the desire of the President. The President, when I met him, one of his cardinal programs is to ensure a sound healthcare delivery system at a specialised level.
” What we are witnessing now, in terms of medical tourism, will soon stop with the necessary investment in our health sector. We have the human resources and the expertise to transform our capabilities into hospitals where you don’t need to travel to Egypt or India to seek medical treatment. And from what this institution is doing, I’m sure that trend will be a thing of the past soon,” he said.
He then reafirned the President’s determination to transform the country’s healthcare delivery system into one of the best in Africa,
He hinted that ” This hospital will be one of the best hospitals, not only in Nigeria but in West Africa.
So that people will not be spending foreign currency, I mean foreign exchange, to go to Egypt or India to seek medical attention.
We are on our way, it’s a work in progress. We shall get to where we want to get to.”
Senator Jibrin also stated that the National Assembly will continue to enact the necessary legislation to support the executive in addressing challenges in the health sector and other areas.
” We are all members of the family of Mr President. We are working based on his teachings and commitment to address the challenges facing our country.
And what you have seen now is the tip of the iceberg. We shall continue to develop the hospital until it becomes the best in West Africa, not even in Nigeria,” he said.
He commended the Deputy President of the Senate for making sure AKTH is the best teaching hospital in the country.
“These projects have started since 2020. Of course, there are many of them, and they are projects that are directed in order to improve the health services that are rendered by the hospital,and also to create some other services that were not available previously.he said
Also speaking at the occasion
, the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano (BUK), Professor Haruna Musa, expressed the institution’s profound appreciation to the Deputy President of the Senate,
He recalled that “In just two months into my tenure in BUK, Senator Jibrin has brought two mega projects to BUK.”