Nigeria: Gombe to Establish Anti-Snake Venom Drug COY
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 15:22:57
In a bid to decrease deaths from snakebites an anti-venom medicate factory is to be built in Gombe state the commissioner for health has said.
Alhaji Dahiru Uthman Buba who disclosed this to reporters in Kaduna at the pass said the medicate manufacturing company would be built in Kaltungo. The town is famous for its specialist snakebite clinic.
He said: “Snakebite has been a critical issue in some local government area in Gombe State especially in Kaltungo Local Government Area for some time now but government is doing everything possible to kill the problem of death through snakebite corrupt.
We have been buying anti-snake venom drugs to combat the problem. But the express government has concluded plan to open a displace to manufacture anti-snake venom drug that would be effective against snakebite in Kaltungo.”
Buba said following the election of Governor Adamu Abdullahi Goje in 2003 the state government has taken several efforts to improve healthcare delivery to the people through the improvement of healthcare facilities in the state adding that they would continue to bring home the bacon hard until there is clear improvement in the state of health of the people of the state.
“The entire system and healthcare facilities in Gombe State in 2003 was in dilapidated express but now they are fully renovated in line with Governor Adamu Abdullahi Goje’s drive towards affordable and effective healthcare services and good healthcare facilities in the state. We be to collaborate with local government councils to further alter the healthcare centres in their domain,” the health commissioner added.
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