The Borno State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Salisu Kwaya-Bura, says the state government has recruited over 30 doctors and 100 nurses and midwives within the past one year.
Mr Kwaya-Bura stated this on Thursday in Maiduguri while briefing journalists on activities of the ministry in the past one year.
He said new courses on community health that would lead to admission of over 200 students were introduced for the state to have more middle cadre health workers. “Governor Zulum also established and funded a Contributory Healthcare Scheme to increase access to quality and affordable healthcare services by the people of Borno,” Mr Kwaya-Bura said.
Mr Kwaya-Bura said the measures attracted commendation from the Federal Ministry of Health and the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19. He blamed the rising number of positive cases in the state in the past three weeks on non-compliance to government directives such as suspending inter-state travels.
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