The Maryam Abacha Children and Women
Hospital, Sokoto has successfully conducted
advanced vagina reconstruction surgeries
on three women with Vesico Vaginal
Fistula.
Vaginal reconstruction is the creation of a
new or artificial vagina after surgery to
remove part or the entire vagina; it is also
used as a treatment for vaginal cancer.
Sokoto state Commissioner for Health, Dr.
Balarabe Kakale, disclosed this in Gusau at
a three-day workshop organized by a
USAID-assisted Leadership, Empowerment,
Advocacy and Development Project
implemented in Sokoto and Bauchi States.
The workshop with the theme ”2016 Sokoto
State Budget Performance Review and
Public Hearing on 2017 Budget Workshop”
was a platform for the review of the
ministry’s nearly N6 billion 2016 budget.
Represented by Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, a
Director in the ministry, Kakale said the
hospital also conducted 162 VVF surgeries.
Kakale added, ‘‘Over two million children
were immunized in the state while the
process of transforming Primary Health
Care under one roof in the state has
reached over ninety per cent”.
He said other achievements recorded in the
health sector included the reactivation of
quarterly free plastic surgeries at the Noma
Hospital, Sokoto by foreign surgeons.
The commissioner disclosed that the state
government provided a N100 million take
off grant for the Contributory Health
Scheme while more than three million
people were provided free malaria drugs.
”Health staff were recruited and posted
across the state to shore up the provision
of efficient healthcare services to the
people.
”Several other construction and renovation
projects as well as provision of hospital
equipment, drugs and medicament were
executed in 2016.
”This was not, however, without challenges
like recession, delay in releases of funds,
poor internal revenue generation and
multiple taxation of private health
facilities.”
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