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 bedevilled by the Boko Haram Insurgency
The minister on Friday 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 the projects 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 supervised 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 bedevilled 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 Histopathology unit.
He said the 58 projects of the Intervention were in furtherance of President Mohammadu Buhari administration’s pledge and commitment to rebuilding the northeast subregion.
Governor Umaru Fintiri who was elated for 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 the 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.
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.