The federal government has approved 50 percent subsidy for electricity tariff in public hospitals across the country.
This was announced by Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare Tunji Alausa while commissioning some projects at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital and National Eye Centre in Kaduna.
The Minister commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply at the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarization project at the dialysis unit comprising a solar powered borehole backed by a 10.2 KVA inverter which comes with a lithium battery at Abdulkareem Jika Yusuf COVID-19 Intervention Centre at the psychiatric hospital.
According to him “we are going to change the name of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital to Specialist Hospitals to expand care delivery and destigmatize the hospital so that everybody can come here, though the core services will still be psychiatric, but then changing the nomenclature give it the liberty to continuously expand the services.
Alausa who expressed confidence in the Chief Medical Director of the psychiatric hospital, Aishatu Yusha’u Armiyau said “the success in the Hospital is a testimony to what our President, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised Nigerians during his campaign.”
