Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has decried absence of modern teaching and learning equipment in state owned healthcare training institutions.
Aliyu said the problem is what led to shortage of qualified manpower in the sector in the seat of the caliphate.
The governor who said there is the need for the state to produce high quality manpower in the state said his administration will take necessary measures to reposition the sector.
Speaking at a reception organized in honour of the outgoing Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr Abubakar Faruk, Governor Aliyu said his administration would soon equip its health training institutions with the state-of-the-art equipment to enhance teaching and learning.
According to him, the absence of the equipment is one of the major obstacles to achieving effective teaching in line with extant global best practices, hence the need to change the ugly trend.
Abubakar Bawa, Press Secretary to the governor quoted him as saying “we cannot continue with obsolete teaching equipment in our health training institutions, when technology is moving fast in the area of digital and state-of-the-art equipment”.
“Improving our health sector remains one of our top priorities,as it constitutes one of our nine-point smart agenda for the state”.
Governor Aliyu added that his administration has recently recruited over 800 Nurses and Midwives in an effort geared towards meeting the need of manpower in the state’s health sector for effective service delivery.
He commended Dr Faruk for his immense contributions to the development of the school, noting that the celebrant had during his service in the state, dedicated his time to ensure that indigenous people were encouraged to go into Nursing Sciences and Midwifery.
“I want to assure you that this administration would tap from the wealth of experience of the outgoing Registrar for the benefit of our state,” he added.
