Health Institutions Receive Medical Equipment From JAMB
During the weekend, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), had kicked off the distribution of facilitated medical equipment to select health facilities across the six geopolitical zones in the north.
The benefiting health institutions include the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Borno State.
Federal Medical Centre Azare, Bauchi State, Yusuf Maitama Sule University Teaching Hospital, Kano State, and Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, Zamfara State .
Others are the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State, University of Medical Sciences, Otukpo, Benue State, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Nsukka, Enugu State; Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State; Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos State; Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, and Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The items donated included incubators, an oxygen machine, beds, parameters, ventilators, an anesthetic machine, a portable ultrasound machine, an intensive care unit monitor, an office table, and an ICU electric bed.
In an address at the ceremony, the registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, explained that “The intervention of the board in the area of healthcare delivery is to support the government’s efforts aimed at addressing the huge medical infrastructural gap.”
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Professor Oloyede who was represented by the Director of the National Headquarters Annex Kaduna, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulqadir Maska, disclosed that “In order to uplift the health and educational institutions, the board will continue to prune down its expenses through prudence, the adoption of relevant cost-saving technology, and other efficiency-strategies to free up resources to support the major stakeholders.”
He expressed confidence, saying, “As we are unveiling the YMSU container, it is believed that this will go a long way in meeting SDG 3 (Health and Well-being), SDG 4 (Quality Education) as well as serve public good.”
Professor Oloyede seized the opportunity to appreciate Project-CURE, the principal partner for its strategic interventions in promoting healthcare across the globe.
He, therefore, urged “individuals and corporate bodies to imbibe the spirit of volunteerism and sacrifice as we dedicated ourselves to the promotion of the best interest of humanity through facilitation of physical infrastructure and enhanced capacity-building projects in our ill-equipped and underfunded public education and health institutions.”
Speaking while receiving the items, Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, noted that his administration had been consistent in implementing policies and programmes, aimed at improving the health status of its citizens.
Ganduje, also represented by the state Commissioner of Environment, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, pointed out that some of the initiatives included the provision of drugs and other items to health facilities across the 44 LGAs; completion and equipping of two mega hospitals and rehabilitation and upgrade of Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital to a world-class facility, among others.
