By Sadiq Abubakar Maiduguri
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Borno state has approved the recruitment of 38 nurses who have just graduated from the Dr. Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery, Damaturu, into the state’s healthcare service. According to him, the recruitment was intended to boost manpower for the state’s healthcare as his administration continues with the “biggest and most far reaching expansion of the sector in the history of our state.”
A statement issued by his Director of Press Aff airs, Abdullahi Bego, said the governor also approved the recruitment of 32 NYSC doctors, pharmacists, radiographers, and physiotherapists into the healthcare service with commensurate professional allowances. It would be recalled that the governor had earlier approved the recruitment of a total of 386 doctors, consultants, nurses and other categories of specialists and professional medical workers for the newly established Yobe University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH), Damaturu, which had already started providing clinical services to the public
