By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)
Sokoto state primary Health development Agency is to recruit 2000 middle cadre health workers to man it's over 244 health clinics spread across the state.
The Special Advisor to the Sokoto State Governor on Primary Health Care Development Agency, Alhaji Abubakar Chika Umar, disclosed this in an exclusive interview.
He said the Agency is currently undertaking rehabilitation of a number of primary healthcare facilities with a view to conform with international best practice. He explained that, the Agency is dispensing free drugs to pregnant Women and children under 5 years of age as part of effort to mitigate maternal and child mortality rate in the state.
He stated that despite Polio free status enjoyed by the state, the Agency is still conducting research and taking samples in areas the state aimed at maintaining the status.
According to him, recently the Agency established a higher Powered monitoring and evaluation department to help in assessing the performance of health posts and PHC clinics in rural and other urban centers in the state. He said the state Government despite it's meager resources has committed huge resources in the area of health care development at the grassroots.
He further stated that the state Government had constructed a health clinic in each of the 244 political wards of the state and provided ambulances for emergency situations that need further referrals to generals hospitals in Urban centers.
The special adviser however commended development partners for their support and contribution to the development of the state health sector.
"I must commend the effort of the sokoto state Government for it's outstanding performance in the control of the spread of Corona virus, the virus has not been detected in the rural part of the state throughout its incubation period " says the special adviser.
Alhaji Chika however maintained that , the recent establishment of the Medical Diagnostic Venter , the two premiere hospitals and state University teaching hospital was an attended feather to Governor Tambuwals quest to improve health conditions of the people of sokoto state and it's neighbours. NNL.
