Bauchi State Government offers free medical services to over 400,000 vulnerables in the state.

Bauchi State Government has offered free medical services to over 400,000 vulnerable people to improved basic healthcare delivery across the state.

Deputy Director PHC Darazo LGA Ibrahim Muhammad Hassan, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists during a media tour of ongoing and completed projects of governor Bala Mohammed’s administration, said the state government in collaboration with development partners have initiated various projects and programmes that are uplifting healthcare services for needy in Darazo and other LGAs in the state.

He added that part of the intervention also includes training and retraining of health workers to build their capacity to meet up with the current changes in the curriculum to discharge effective services across the 65 PHCs in Darazo LGA.

Muhammed Hassan further disclosed an incentives program introduced to pregnant women and delivery kits to boost routine immunization in Darazo, adding that recently, the local government received an intervention from a nongovernmental organization that is providing a token of between N1000 and N2000 to mothers for transportation to the facility and return back home.

In his remarks, Bauchi State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Usman Shehu Usman, who led a team of journalists on media tour explained that the free medical services is aimed at improving family health, reduce infant morbidity and maternal mortality rates, adding that it will continue to offer free antenatal care, drugs to pregnant women and children U-5 years across the state.

The Commissioner said the state government has made drugs, delivery kits and other commodities available for the success of the free medical services in order to ensure that patients have unhindered access to services.