The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Salako, has inaugurated 16 projects at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Kware, Sokoto State.
Speaking at the event on Wednesday, Salako said the projects were part of the strategic vision and the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
He said Tinubu was focusing on empowering the nation’s health institutions with all they required.
Salako listed them to include physical infrastructure, human resources, better funding and other forms of support so that such hospitals can better serve Nigerians.
He said, ”It is commendable that the management of FNPH Kware has made judicious use of the allocated resources and I am happy to see that more than 16 projects were completed.
”These projects included: Molecular Laboratory, Intensive Care Unit, Regional Women and Children Drug Dependency Treatment Centre and an Accident and Emergency Centre.
“Others are; Multipurpose Students’ hostel, School of Post Basic Nursing (Psychiatry), Information, an Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, Hall and alternative power supply, among others.
” These projects without any doubt will positively impact care and results in better outcomes for patient who visit this hospital.”
The minister added that the Federal Government had provided more than 500 key infrastructural projects and advanced modern equipment to various Federal tertiary health institutions across the country.
According to him, the government had also recognised that physical infrastructure alone cannot provide healthcare, adding,”it had therefore also instituted a robust employment mechanism leading to the employment of over 15,000 health workers in a year.
” It also ensures continuous professional training for our health workers and through the Nigeria Digital in Health Initiative, it is increasing the digitisation of service provision to increase efficiency, transparency, quality of care and stewardship”.
The minister further explained that to address the challenge of power in the health institutions, the government wad implementing an alternative power mechanism to take advantage of renewable sources of energy like solar.
Salako said,”The Federal Government plans to convene a National Dialogue on Power in the Health Sector to provide a better framework for the deployment of alternative power and drive more investment to power the health sector.
” Government has approved a Social Action Fund to empower 109 communities across the country to implement community-owned health promoting projects as a strategy to address some of the social determinants of health.
” We are also in the process of implementing ‘The Renewed Hope Health Connect’, an interventional fully funded healthcare services targeting one million vulnerable Nigerians with medical, surgical, ophthalmological and audiology care.”
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