FG commissions facilities at Katsina FMC

The federal government has commissioned newly constructed Accident and Emergency complex, Emergency Paediatric Units (EPU), Molecular/Microbiology Laboratory complex, Medical Intensive Care Unit and a Ring Road at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Katsina.

The projects commissioned by Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, and the Minister of State for Health, Senator Adeleke Mamora, on Tuesday, were executed by the Governing Council and Management of the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina.

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In his address, Senator Mamora expressed the federal government’s commitment to the provision of affordable health care delivery to Nigerians.

He added that the federal government had also increased allocations to all health institutions in the country and followed it up with early release of funds to the institutions to ensure delivery of quality health services.

“It has been a commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure provision of affordable health care services to all Nigerians in the efforts to achieve universal health coverage,” he said.

The minister also lauded the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the federal government and the Katsina State on the conversion of the FMC, Katsina, to a Federal Teaching Hospital, saying that would assist the state in both educational and health sector development.

Earlier in her welcome address, the chairperson of the Governing Council of the Centre, Hajiya Hannatu Hakilu, said the council had since its inauguration in 2018 been working to ensure that the centre lives up to its core mandate of reducing human morbidity and mortality rates, eliminating and eradicating diseases and significantly increasing quality of life and its expectancy in the North West zone of Nigeria.

“What we are here to commission today is just a fraction of our results. Others can be seen from the steady reduction in the morbidity and mortality rates by about 40% , from 22 deaths per 1000 in 2017 to 13 deaths per 1000 in 2021,” she said.