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Adamawa' State to Boost Healthcare Delivery As it Adds 600 New Health Workers ---ADSPHCDA Boss

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Daily Rendezvous  In an effort to addressing manpower shortfall for formidable health care delivery services,the Adamawa state government has approved the recruitment of 600 more health workers in the state. Executive Chairman of the Adamawa state Primary Health Care Development Agency (ADSPHCDA) ,Dr. Suleiman Saidu Bashir made this known during an interactive session with some select journalists in Yola. Dr. Bashir stresses that the approval by the state executive council will go a long way in ensuring quality assurance. Dr.Bashir explained that last year the Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri led administration employed 1,113 health workers and another set of 36 technical workers were also recruited with a view to face the demands by the teeming populace. Bashir explained that the Agency is currently undertaking its various routine health care delivery services christianed 'an integrated immunisation campaigns' across the 21 local government areas in the st...

Busted: Quack Doctor Performs Surgery On 45 People, Kills 15

Busted: Quack Doctor Performs Surgery On 45 People, Kills 15 By Billy Graham Abel Yola The Adamawa state governor, Umaru Fintiri, is poised to launch a major crack down on quack medical practitioners in Adamawa, after investigations by his government uncovered a fake doctor with only a national board for technical education certificate has been practicing as a medical doctor in the state and that he has performed surgeries on about 45 patients and killed about fifteen people in the process. Fintiri made the remarks, Wednesday, during a ministerial briefing in Yola, Adamawa state. The governor explained that a fake doctor who was employed in 2015 by the Adamawa State health services management board is discovered to have gone only to secondary school and only possess a National Board for Technical Education (NABTEB) certificate. He added that the said quack doctor has carried out different surgeries on forty-five patients after he was recruited by the Adamawa state government using...