Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has reiterated his commitment to ”campaign promises of building general hospitals across the 44 local governments and Primary health care centres across the state”.
The Governor spoke during the flag ceremony of free open heart surgery for Kano patients with cardiac malfunction sponsored by Saudi Arabian government in partnership with Muslim World League and Aminu Kano Teaching hospital, AKTH.
He said his government will re-introduce free mobile clinics to cater for the people in the rural areas who are in need of medical attention.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanusi Bature, said the Governor pledged commitment to partner with any Non- governmenatal Organisations (NGO), spirited individuals and philanthropists willing to assist in providing specialized training to the health personnel and medical care to the patients in need of such services.
Governor Abba said he was pleased with the initiative because, “We have the most vulnerable people, downtrodden masses that does not have any means of taking care of their health needs”.
He added that ” we will stick to our campaign promises of building general hospitals across the 44 local governments and Primary health care centres across the state and the re-introduce mobile clinics to cater for the people in the rural areas who are in need of medical attention free of charge”
The head of the medical team from Saudi Arabia, Dr Utman Al-uthman Saad revealed that the medical team comprised of 20 Cardiac surgeons who will perform the surgery and pledged to do their best to achieve the set goals.
The Chief Medical director of AKTH, Professor Abdulrahman Abba Sheshe said the intervention is timely as there is an increase of heart disease related cases especially in Northern Nigeria due to the prevalence of hypertension.
