By Desire Emmanuel
A commissioner in Kano State shocked his audience on Saturday, May 2, when he stated that the state government had sunk the sum of N1 billion into the renovation of the state-owned Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital.
The state Commissioner of Health, Abubakar Labaran, gave the figure while conducting the Presidential Media Team currently on an inspection tour of completed and ongoing projects in the state.
According to the commissioner, the hospital, which has 230 bed spaces, was undergoing a total overhaul to boost service delivery.
While defending the amount sunk into the renovation, he stated that the hospital comprises four main areas – obstetrics and gynaecology, internal medicine, paediatrics and surgery.
He also claimed that the hospital had never received the attention it was currently getting since it was established in the colonial era.
“Now, it is undergoing a total renovation. It has been converted to a totally new facility; everywhere is so clean,” Labaran said.
Also speaking during the tour, the Commissioner of Works, Alhaji Marwan Ahmed-Aminu, said the work in the hospital would be completed “in the next two months.”
He said the hospital would be equipped with modern facilities when the renovation work is completed.
Earlier, the team had visited the Asiya Bayero Hospital reclaimed by the current administration after it was sold out by a previous administration.
