In Borno Govt. spends N600m to rehabilitate health facilities

 

 

The Borno Government has said that it spent N600 million to rehabilitate and upgrade 18 secondary health facilities destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Dr Salisu Kwayarbura, the Chief Medical Director, Borno State Hospitals Management Board, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Sunday.

Kwayarbura said that the facilities were destroyed between 2011 and 2015 during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state.

``Before the peak of the insurgency, all the hospitals in the state were functional with the medical equipment in them intact.

``We had about 38 secondary health facilities in the state but 18 among them were completely destroyed.’’

The chief medical director expressed regrets that the destruction of the hospitals had caused serious setback to health care delivery to the people of the state.

He said the activities of the insurgents had also created additional burden on the state`s health facilities.

Kwayarbura said that the General Hospitals in Dikwa, Mafa and Marte, which were equipped with drugs and facilities worth N14 million, were also destroyed by the Boko Haram terrorists.