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The Kebbi State Government has relocated six medical departments of Sir Yahyah Memorial Hospital, Birnin Kebbi to Kalgo General Hospital in Kalgo Local Government Area of the state for proper remodelling.
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Sir Yahyah Memorial Hospital, Dr. Zaki Abubakar Zaki, disclosed this during a press conference with newsmen to clear a few insinuations surrounding the relocation.
Zaki ,who is also the Permanent Secretary of the Hospital, disclosed that the departments which had been relocated to Kalgo are Medicine, Surgery, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dental and Physiotherapy, while those remaining at the Sir Yahyah Memorial Hospital includes Maternity, Paediatrics, ICU, Dialysis, Lab, X-ray and Accident and Emergency department.
“At the inception of this administration, His Excellency, Dr. Nasir Idris paid a visit to Sir Yahyah Hospital to see things by himself and he made a promise that his administration would reconstruct and remodel the hospital by giving it a befitting status.
“This was what necessitated setting up a committee, headed by the Commissioner for Health to come up with modalities that could see the relocation of certain departments from Sir Yahyah Memorial Hospital to Kalgo Special Hospital in order to pave the way for remodelling.”
“Now, the government on its own, appreciated the pains people are going through with this relocation and certain things have been put in place in order to cushion the effects on the staff, as well as the patients of the memorial hospital.”
He disclosed that the state government has provided buses for the staff of the memorial hospital that would be going to the general hospital everyday and standby ambulances for the patients everyday.
He assured the public that all other departments at the memorial hospital were still functioning as expected, stressing that after remodelling, the hospital would serve as a training centre for medical doctors who are on internship.
