Nigerian govt approves 50% electricity subsidy for public hospitals

The Nigerian authorities has approved a 50 percent energy subsidy for nationalist hospitals crossed the country.

Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa disclosed this precocious portion speaking astatine the National Neo-Psychiatric Hospital successful Barnawa, Kaduna State.

According to him, the inaugural is to chopped the moving costs for nationalist hospitals and alleviate the interaction connected patients.

He further noted that the authorities plans to rename the infirmary to a specializer hospital.

He commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply astatine the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarization task astatine the dialysis unit, which includes a solar-powered borehole and a 10.2 KVA inverter with a lithium artillery astatine the Abdulkareem Jika Yusuf COVID-19 Intervention Centre

“We are going to alteration the names of our Federal Hospitals to Specialist Hospitals to grow attraction transportation and destigmatize hospitals truthful that everybody tin travel here. While the halfway services volition stay psychiatric, this re-naming volition let for the continuous enlargement of services,” helium said.