The primary purpose of governance is to provide security for the lives and properties of the people. This responsibility includes working to guarantee the wellbeing of the populace through a working healthcare system complete with the right infrastructure and all other necessary logistics and response facilities.
Governor Buni is a believer in the aphorism, ‘Health Is Wealth’. That id why he been steadfastly committed and competent in changing the face of healthcare in Yobe State, and the state has reaped fabulous benefits from it.
Buni’s exceptional commitment and competence are glaringly expressed in his administration’s execution and implementation of spectacular projects and programmes in the entire gamut of the healthcare delivery.
Gigantic structures to cater for vital sections of healthcare services in the state’s tertiary healthcare institutions; and the construction of over one hundred general hospitals flowering across the local governments areas of the state, are all expressive of the Buni administration’s exemplary efforts at improving and sustaining quality healthcare services across the once insurgency-troubled state.
Governor Buni’s spectacular healthcare infrastructure transformation covers the completion of 138 Primary Healthcare Centers across 17 LGAs in Yobe State; construction of 350-bed Maternal and Childcare Centre at the state-owned Teaching Hospital (YSUTH) Damaturu; construction of 80 medical stores in within the state’s Primary Healthcare Centres; construction of Special baby care units in Gashua and Potiskum; and the construction of medical officer’s quarters in Yobe State University Teaching Hospital Damaturu
The Buni administration in Yobe State has scored Alpha for the construction of 150 bed medical student’s hostel at Yobe State University Teaching Hospital, Damaturu; construction and upgrading of molecular labs in Damaturu; upgrading of primary health care centres to General Hospitals in Machina, Yusufari and Gulani; construction of diagnostic centre in YSUTH Damaturu; construction of new lecture theatres, hostels, classes, road network and drainages at the College of Nursing Damaturu; and the construction of lecture theatres at YSUTH, Damaturu.
His administration’s procurement and deployment of vehicles and tricycles to deliver ambulance services within city limits and Hard – To – Reach (HTR) settlements have deeply endeared Governor Buni to the Yobeans who have always been desirous of fast and easy access to healthcare facilities, irrespective of the remoteness of their abode.
Governor Buni’s spectacular passion for quality healthcare services and his sympathy for medical workers, for whose welfare he has heavily invested resources would make you think that he is, himself, a medical practitioner.
The doubling of the allowances of medical bills and the construction of houses for them, especially those working with the state’s tertiary healthcare institutions, are all expressive of the governor’s resolve to leave nothing to chance towards the provision of quality healthcare for his people.
The Buni administration has also doublef of the allowances of medical students.
In consideration of the fact that infrastructure without manpower amounts to efforts in futility, the governor has employed over 240 graduands of the College of Nursing and Midwifery who have since been deployed to man the new facilities.
In the service delivery front, a growing fleet of standard ambulances as well as 80 tricycles have been provided to handle ambulance services within city limits and in Hard – to – Reach areas respectively. Also, medical outreaches have been commissioned to bring succour in form of free Medicare and drugs to nursing mothers, children, the aged and accident victims.
To ensure that everyone gets access to safe and affordable healthcare services, governor Buni has seen to the establishment and operationalization of the Yobe State Contributory Health Agency in Yobe State.
Also established and operationalized by Governor Buni is the Yobe State Drug and Medical Consumables Management Agency whose mandate is to ensure the sufficiency and efficient and transparent management of the state’s drugs stock for the benefit of everyone.
Governor Mai Mala Buni has indeed inscribed his name in gold in the on the everlasting pages of history for transforming the healthcare services in Yobe state from a most-pathetic to an exemplary state according standards for quality healthcare delivery to his people.
Abubakar writes from Abuja
