Determined to scale up healthcare delivery, the Yobe State Government this year recruited more than 300 health workers including doctors and nurses.
This is also as the government has embarked on renovating the State’s Specialist Hospital in Damaturu.
Governor Mai Mala Buni, during a press briefing equally noted that the government has also constructed a modern ICT center to enhance social protection initiatives for the benefit of the people of the state.
“2024 is also a significant year for our health and human services sector. Our effort in the healthcare sector led Yobe State to win 500,000 US dollars in the primary healthcare leadership challenge for states in the North-East sub-region.
“In the area of contributory healthcare, we have continued to provide support to 222 primary healthcare providers through capitation and 24 secondary healthcare facilities through fee-for-service arrangement under the Yobe State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, YSCHMA.
“As of October 2024, YSCHMA has enrolled a total of 275,358 people into the contributory healthcare scheme in the state, reflecting the agency’s commitment to expanding healthcare coverage across the state”, said the governor.
The state capital, Damaturu now boasts a new ante-natal and VIP ward at Women and Children Hospital, an Accident and Emergency complex and a one-storey building doctors’ quarters at State Specialist Hospital, Buni-Yadi.
Besides government also procured and distributed various state-of-the-art medical equipment across different healthcare facilities in the state and kept the momentum on the ongoing research on chronic kidney disease affecting some local government areas of the state.
“We have also procured an important software for our MRI Machine at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital, Damaturu – the PV VAR ASSAT Software,” the governor disclosed.
Emphasising on the milestone in the State’s healthcare delivery, Buni said the government achieved 100% payment of hazard allowances and adjustment of CONMESS and CONHESS salary to boost morale of healthcare workers.
In the area of water supply, the state government awarded contract for the conversion of 170 motorized boreholes at the ratio of 10 per local government to solar system in order to ensure steady water supply to teeming populace in the State.
“Our Universal, Basic and Secondary Education Sector has also witnessed significant transformations during the year, with the renovation and improvement of infrastructure and services as well as the recruitment and deployment of teachers.
“In addition, 90 junior secondary schools were established from the deboarding programme embarked upon by the state government. Also, 245 admissions were secured for JSS III students in Federal Science and Technical Colleges across the country.
“In the area of Higher Education, classroom blocks, administrative block and conference hall at were renovated at College of Education and Legal Studies, Nguru while one administrative block was built at Mai Idriss Alooma Polytechnic, Geidam,” the governor said.
Environmental protection and management was not also left out from the governor’s achievement list. Solar powered cooking stoves and hybrid solar charcoal stoves were distributed to rural women to minimise deforestation.
The ministry of environment also engaged in the re-demarcation of five Forest Reserves for increased vegetation cover and reclaiming of lost forest.
“We have also embarked on erosion control through the construction of retain wall and stone pitching at Hayin Gada in Potiskum. We have also built six early warning stations (weather stations) in Machina, Bursari, Damaturu, Yunusari, Jakusko, and Fika town,” Governor Buni disclosed.
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