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Daily Trust (Abuja)
24 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Isa Umar Gusau
Maiduguri
Borno State government is to contract 31 medical doctors from Egypt to man its newly commissioned ultra modern hospital, the state's Commissioner for Health, Mr Ayuba Iza has said.
Speaking to newsmen yesterday, the commissioner said that a high powered committee chaired by himself with a professor of community medicine, Prof. Emeritus Umaru shehu as adviser, would travel to Cairo to complete procedures for the recruitment of the doctors.
He said the team, which would leave this week, would screen and recruit medical specialists for surgery, medicine, radiology, general out patients, gynecology, laboratory and pediatrics departments.
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Iza said the Egyptians are to be recruited to run the newly constructed multi-million naira ultra-modern Umaru Shehu Specialist Hospital Bulunkutu, which was gutted by fire before its commissioning by President Umaru Yar'Adua in February this year.
The commissioner said the hospital which cost the state government almost one billion naira, would start skeletal services by the end of this month as the Egyptian doctors were specifically coming to work at the hospital to train their Nigerian counterparts on how to operate some of the sophisticated equipment installed there.
He said he was optimistic that before the end of their contractual agreement, the Nigerian doctors would be well armed to take charge of the facilities at the hospital. Iza also disclosed that plans were underway to review the welfare packages of resident doctors in the state in order to restore their confidence and retain them in the system.
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