By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Yobe state governor, Mai Mala-Buni has stated that 88 customised tricycle ambulances had been procured and distributed to ease transportation of patients in areas with difficult terrain.
This is contained in a statement issued by Gov. Mai Mala-Buni’s Director- General Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed in Damaturu on Thursday.
Mala-Buni also stated that the federal government has approved the establishment of an oxygen plant in Yobe, to meet the demands for medical oxygen in the country.
Mala-Buni said the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Enahire, made the pledge at a stakeholders’ meeting for the 2021 mid-year review of routine immunization and Primary Healthcare Programme in Abuja.
He said the state on its part had completed and equipped 105 out of the proposed 178 functional Primary Health Care Centers for effective service delivery to the people.
Mala-Buni assured that the state would continue to promptly pay all counterpart funds to enhance healthcare service delivery in the state.
Meanwhile, he said, an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding on Routine lmmunization Primary Healthcare Programme was signed by Yobe government, Bill and Melinda Gates and Aliko Dangote foundations.
The governor said the endorsement would expand and extend the duration of the programme to the next five years, NAN reports.