In an effort to improved the health sector in Yobe State,Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, has approved the recruitment of 38 nurses who graduated from the Dr. Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery, Damaturu into the state’s healthcare service.
A statement signed by the Director of Press Affairs to the Governor in Damaturu, Mallam Abdullahi Bego said that the recruitment was intended to boost the manpower needs of the state’s healthcare sector.
The statement said the Gaidam administration would continue with what it refered to as the biggest and most far reaching expansion of the sector in the history of the state.
The statement said the governor had also approved the recruitment 32 doctors, pharmacists, radiographers, and physiotherapists into the healthcare service with commensurate professional allowances, from members of the National Youth Service Corps.
It also said the governor equally approved the recruitment of 386 doctors, consultants, nurses and other categories of specialists and professional medical workers for the newly established Yobe State University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH), in Damaturu, which has already commenced the provision of clinical services to the public.
