Fifty percent subsidy on electricity tariff for public hospitals across the country have been approved by the federal government.
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa stated this on while commissioning some projects at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital and National Eye Centre on Thursday in Kaduna.
The minister who commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply at the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarisation project at the dialysis unit, also disclosed the federal government’s plan to change the identities of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospitals to bear ‘specialist hospitals’ as part of measures to expand care delivery.
He explained that the hospitals would continue to offer psychiatric services as their core focus, adding that changing the nomenclature will give the facilities the liberty to continuously expand their services.
Dr. Alausa expressed confidence in the Chief Medical Director of the psychiatric hospital, Dr. Aishatu Yusha’u Armiyau.
Earlier in her welcome address, the Acting Chief Medical Director of the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, Dr. Aminatu Abdulrahman said the Centre was established in 1979 with a mandate to provide specialist eye care services, training of manpower and research for Nigeria.
She said the hospital which has 300 beds situated on 514 hectares of land receives referrals from 36 states of Nigeria and Federal Capital Territory, as well as neighbouring countries.