Yobe State governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has approved the employment of 267 health technicians to boost manpower requirements in health facilities in the state.
The employment covers 140 Buni Scholars who recently graduated in various fields of Medical Sciences in India.
He said the scholars include 43 BSc Nursing, 43 BSc Pharmacy, 22 BSc Medical Laboratory Science, 24 BSc Radiology, 7 BSc Optometry and 1 BSc Public Health graduate.
Similarly, Governor Buni approved the employment of 127 health technicians currently serving as volunteers in health institutions across the state.
The governor directed the employment of the medical technicians who graduated earlier but were not formally employed but had been serving as volunteers in the medical centres.
Information gathered that scholars were placed on CONHESS 8, while the volunteer technicians were placed on CONHESS 6/2.
The Buni administration has consistently offered automatic employment to graduates of the state-owned Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery in the last five years to improve personnel in medical facilities.
It could be recalled that the Buni administration established primary healthcare centres in the political wards of the state to bring healthcare to the people’s doorstep.
Also, the government upgraded the four General Hospitals in Gashua, Potiskum, Geidam, and Buni Yadi to Specialist Hospitals and eight Primary Health Centres to General hospitals, while the State Teaching Hospital was equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to make healthcare delivery accessible and affordable across the state.
