NAN – The Gombe State Government has said that it has completed the Snake Bite Treatment Centre in Kaltungo, Gombe State.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Kennedy Ishaya, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday, in Gombe, that the 250-bed capacity centre cost N500 million.
Ishaya, who said the centre would be inaugurated soon, added that the Kidney Dialysis Centre had also been completed.
The commissioner said that the centre currently had four dialysis machines while the government had placed order for additional two.
He said the state government wanted to make it six with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV and Aids patients having one each, while the remaining were for other ailments.
“Arrangement has been concluded to send nurses to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital to become dialysis managers,” he said.
He said the government had paid N1.1 billion out of the N2.3 billion for the construction of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Dukku.
Ishaya added that the Women and Children Hospital, which was awarded two years ago at the cost of N2.6 billion, had been also completed.
He said the construction was awarded at a cost of N600 million while the equipment gulped two billion naira.
The commissioner said the government had also increased the amount spent on antenatal from N11 million quarterly to N25 million.
