By; AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna
To enhance healthcare delivery in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika, Zaria, the federal government has been advised to ensure timely release of funds allocated to the hospital in the 2023 budget, to ensure timely completion of ongoing projects.
Equity Alliance, a non-governmental organization, who gave the advise at a press conference in Kaduna, believes that as the major tertiary health institution and referral centre in Kaduna State, the teaching hospital needed to be in its utmost shape to cater for healthcare of the people of Kaduna and the neighboring states.
The group’s National Chairman, Magaji A. Baba, explained that the hospital management has in the recent past, installed some state of the art equipment, which have the capacity to reduce medical tourism in order to give people the best medical treatment.
He hailed the efforts of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of ABUTH for the installation of state of the art equipment in the hospital, saying that the development would go a long way to reduce medical tourism and meet the health needs of the people of Kaduna and neighbouring states.
He added that the MRI machine recently installed in the hospital is first of its kind in Northern hospitals and there are so many ongoing projects which the hospital is witnessing that are at different levels of completions.
The group’s National chairman said, “It is against this background, and to further improve the standard of the major tertiary health institution in Kaduna State and Northern Nigeria that, Equity Alliance is using this medium to urge the current Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning to release funds meant for the hospital on time especially in 2023 appropriation.”
