The Kano State Hospital management board has distributed to all the secondary health facilities drugs and consumables worth five million, three hundred and seventy thousand, three hundred and eighty-seven naira (5,317,387.50).
The board has also, warned Chief Medical Directors CMD’s, Chief Medical Officers, CMOs, facilities executives, and staff to desist from hoarding, Selling, or converting supplied drugs to other or personal use, adding that the board and other healthcare executives in the state will continue to monitor the drugs closely as well as tracking record register to ensure maximum utilization.
The executive secretary of the board Dr. Mansur Mudi Nagoda disclosed this while briefing journalists shortly after state commissioner for Health Dr. Abubakar Yusuf Labaran led the symbolic distribution of the commodities to some selected hospitals held in Kano on Tuesday.
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According to Nagoda, the drugs and consumables are not meant to be kept in stores rather it was meant for use by patients at various health facilities to care for their lives especially those who are accident victims and pregnant women.
The hospitals that received their drugs symbolically are Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital(MMSH), Sir Muhammad Sanusi General Hospital (SMSGH), Bichi General Hospital, Gwagwarwa Primary Healthcare, and Unguwa Uku Primary Healthcare.
The executive secretary maintains that the executive committee set up by the Kano state government would continue its unscheduled visitation to all secondary health facilities and across forty-four (44) local government areas irrespective of its distance from the Kano metropolis to ensure compliance, adding that disciplinary actions will be taken against anyone or groups founding sabotaging government efforts or extorting money from patients.
He then urged journalists to complete the present administration’s efforts in investigating healthcare facilities to monitor maximum usage and report any wrongdoing to the management for proper action.
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In a remark, Dr. Abubakar Yusuf Labaran said in March alone, Kano secondary facilities recorded 4,892 deliveries out of which 473 were cesarian, and 27,057 women received anti-natal care support from different facilities.
The commissioner assured the state government of commitment to coming off with policies and laws capable of improving the living conditions of the general populace.