Tinubu has outperformed other Nigerian presidents in health sector: Minister Pate
Muhammad Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, says President Bola Tinubu is transforming the country’s health sector for better quality service delivery.
Mr Pate said this in Bauchi on Friday, during the groundbreaking ceremony of 10 Medserve’s oncology and diagnostic centres at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital.
“Mr President is very clear; he wants to transform this country. He wants to change the direction of this country, and we are fortunate that he picked health as one of those areas.
“In just one year, he has done what has not been done in the history of this country in the health sector,” said Mr Pate.
According to him, the president is investing so much in the health sector to ensure every Nigerian has access to quality healthcare service delivery nationwide.
“He has launched many initiatives and building on what Medserve has done. We are seeing 10 major infrastructural projects with the groundbreaking that is happening.
“In 12 months, we will start opening them all across Nigeria.
“There are 6,000 centres that Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority(NSIA) is doing, and I think the money is available, and those too would be completed within 12 to 18 months; they will be opened,” he said.
He also said Mr Tinubu had undertaken the retraining of 120,000 frontline health workers, adding that 10,000 of them had been retrained across the country, including in Bauchi.
Also speaking, Tolulope Adewole, managing director of Medserve, said that between 2020 and now, Medserve has attended to 131,000 patients in the NSIA Kano diagnostic centre with evidential testimonies.
He explained that close to 700,000 individual tests had been done in Medserve’s diagnostic centres, adding that centres would be created in Umuahia and Abia,
In his address, Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed said his administration would soon expend N25 billion on the state specialist hospital to complement the medical services at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital.
He appreciated Mr Tinubu for deepening inclusion and thanked him for capturing Bauchi in his Renewed Hope Agenda.
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