ASHENEWS reports that Sokoto State Hospital Services Management Board has frowned over the poor hygienic state of some general hospitals across the state.
The Executive Director of the Board, Dr. Bello Abubakar Attahiru expressed his displeasure over the state of the general hospitals when he paid an unscheduled visit to Wurno and Rabah General Hospitals.
At Wurno General Hospital, the Director inspected various sections of the hospital expressing displeasure with the general condition of the hospital as he directed the management to embark on general cleanliness to ensure a safe and hygienic environment.
“The poor sanitary condition of the general hospital Wurno is really annoying, but the management has assured us that they will do their best to ensure that the hospital remains clean”, he said.
At the General Hospital Rabah, the Director assures that the government will do everything possible to provide adequate facilities to the hospitals for the set objectives of adequate healthcare to be achieved.
“The issue of x-ray is one of the blueprints that we are planning to do to our general hospitals to ensure that we have enough facilities so that people of that environment will have access to those x-ray services whenever the need arises”.
Attahiru said that efforts are ongoing by the current administration towards restoring the lost glory of the 21 general hospitals across the state saying, “and also all the challenges we have seen, by God’s grace, we are going to address them in a short period.”
He explained that the visits were aimed at assessing the delivery of health care services to the clients and staff punctuality.
The Principal Medical Officers of Rabah and Wurno general hospitals described the visit as cautious and gave credit to the current management of the board for initiating ways of improving services at the general hospitals across the state.
