Insecurity: Katsina shuts down 69 health care facilities
The Katsina State Government has shut down 69 healthcare centres as a result of insecurity in some council areas of the state.
Dr Shamsudeen Yahaya Kankia, the Executive Secretary, Katsina State Primary Health Care Development Agency, disclosed this to some journalists in Katsina on Tuesday.
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Kankia said that two healthcare centres in Batsari local government were completely burnt down by bandits operating in the area.
“Most of the health facilities in the area were taken over by the miscreants, the solar refrigerators provided in such facilities have been converted to use by the bandits,” he said.
Dr Kankia further revealed that some of its staff were kidnapped and released, lamenting the increasing request for redeployment by health workers in the affected areas.
On the situation of the dilapidated health centres in the state, he said the government had concluded plans to renovate one health centre in each of the 361 wards across the state.
He, however, expressed the commitment of the state government to ensure the complete rehabilitation of health centres across the state.
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