Ibrahim Abubakar
The state Minister for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has Commissioned some projects funded by the oil and Gas Sector as Intervention in the six states of the Northeast region bedeviled by the Boko Haram Insurgency
The minister yesterday commence the flagging off the commissioning of projects and also supervises some ongoing projects constructed by the defunct Petroleum Equalization Fund Management (Board) (PEF)/ Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCIN) in Yola Adamawa State
Some of protects Commissioned by the Minister were Radiology Complex at Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola, and the overhauling of Nana Asma’u Maternal Referral Centre Yola, and Ajiya Clinic.
The Minister also supervises some ongoing projects at the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital such as the construction of an intensive care unit, Histopathology Laboratory Unit, and Neonatal unit.
He said the intervention was done to upgrade the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital to its new status of a teaching hospital recently inaugurated in May 2022 and also as an intervention to reconstruction and rehabilitation of the North East bedeviled by the Boko Haram Insurgency
The State Minister of Petroleum Resources, said the visit was part of his working visit to the state adding that Adamawa will benefit from 58 Oil and Gas Intervention Projects.
He said the Radiology complex commissioned at the teaching Hospital Yola has City Scanner, a Neonatal unit, resident doctor’s quarters, digital Radio, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and a Histopathology unit.
He said the 58 projects of the Intervention were in furtherance of President Mohammed Buhari’s administration’s pledge and commitment to rebuilding the northeast subregion.
Governor Umaru Fintiri who was elated by the Minister’s visit thanked the federal government for executing the projects which he noted will benefit the state tremendously.
He revealed that the state government has been according to healthcare sector priority in the areas of construction, rehabilitation, and equipping of health facilities.
While receiving the minister earlier, the Chief Medical Director of Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Prof Auwal Abubakar said the hospital was established in 1999 with a 175 beds capacity and over the years grown to a bed capacity of 450.
” Therefore we want to thank President Mohammadu Buhari for upgrading from a Federal Medical Center to a university teaching hospital this year in May( 2022) ” he said
He said the hospital was able to improve human resources and trained specialists in their various fields of specialization
” The intervention has aided the hospital to successfully separate conjoined twins brought from Belyasa state,” he said
He said the Modibbo Adama University Yola has admitted the first set of medical students and have submitted their lists adding that the students would have started lecture but the ongoing ASUU strike was the reason why the students have not resumed.
