The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman has approved the recruitment of at least one hundred ninety seven different medical professionals to boost the Human Resources and efficient service delivery in the health sector.
The approval according to Director General of the Kwara State Hospital Management Board Sa’ad Aluko includes employment of eight consultants, 23 medical doctors, and 72 nurses with varying specialties.
The approval also covers three senior registrar, 13 pharmacy technicians, six pharmacists, four medical laboratory scientists, five scientific officers, 20 Community Health Extension Workers , 20 Junior Community Health Extension Workers , , and 23 hospital attendants, he added.
Royal Times reports that the doctors include dentists to strengthen the new dental centre, while the eight consultants include two anaesthetists to man the new Intensive Care Unit even as government trains more perioperative/theatre nurses for the facility.
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