The Maryam
Abacha Children and Women Hospital, Sokoto has successfully conducted advanced
vagina reconstruction surgeries on three women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula
(VVF).
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.
Dr Balarabe
Kakale, Sokoto state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this in Gusau at a
three-day workshop organized by a USAID-assisted Leadership, Empowerment,
Advocacy and Development (LEAD) 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”, he said.
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