The Sokoto State government is set to equip its health training institutions with the state-of-the-art equipment to enhance teaching and learning that can produce highly qualified manpower for the sector.
The State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu made the pledge at a reception organized in honor of the outgoing Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr Abubakar Faruk, who completed the mandatory 35 years of service.
Gov. Aliyu described the lack of modern teaching and learning equipment in the State-owned health institutions as one of the major obstacles to achieving effective teaching in line with extant global best practices. He promised to change the ugly trend.
“We cannot continue with obsolete teaching equipment in our health training institutions, when technology is moving fast in the area of digital and state-of-the-art equipment.
“Improving our health sector remains one of our top priorities, as it constitutes one of our nine-point smart agenda for the state,” Aliyu said.
The State government recently recruited over 800 Nurses and Midwives who had been waiting for employment for over nine years. The move, according to the Governor, was aimed at meeting the dire needs of manpower in the State’s health sector for effective service delivery.
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Gov. Aliyu applauded the contributions of the outgoing Registrar for ensuring that the nation’s Nursing and Midwifery institutions did not compromise academic standards.
On his part, Dr Faruk Umar highlighted some of the achievements recorded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria under his watch.
He said a total of 147,000 Nurses and Midwives were produced across the country in the eight years of his stewardship, just as the number of Nurses and Midwives being produced annually rose to 29,000 as against 9,000 before he took over the Council.
ait.live Correspondent in Sokoto quoted the outgoing Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria as saying that the nation also recorded the establishment of an additional 98 new Colleges of Nursing and Midwifery within the same period.
(Editor: Ken Eseni)
