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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Commissions MAUTH

Teaching Hospital

development in the region. He further stated that
“what he had seen here was commendable and
collaboration of this nature was the only way the
nation’s economic development can be attained in
the shortest period of time.”
The MAUTH project according to the Minister of
State for Petroleum Resources is evidence of the
commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari
led government to redeem its campaign promise to
MAUTH hospital logo
the people of the North East, and in doing so it will
As part of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s accelerate the much needed reconstruction,
initiative to rebuild the North East region that has rehabilitation, and rebuilding of the region that was
been destroyed, devastated and ravaged by the devastated because of the insurgency in the region
activities of the terrorists group Boko Haram in the that saw the wanton destruction of lives, social
last two decades. The Modibbo Adama University infrastructure, property and livelihood of the people
Teaching hospital was upgraded with the state-of- in the region.
the-art facilities that has made it become one of the Timipre Sylva stated that upgrading of the facility in
best in the country. Modibbo Adamawa University Teaching Hospital was
The Minister of State Petroleum Resources spoke done with the purpose of enhancing the training of
during the commissioning of the state-of-the-art medical students, medical doctors, healthcare
facilities Radiography Centre at Modibbo Adama practitioners, reducing doctor-patient ratio and to
University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH), Yola, boost healthcare delivery in the region.
Adamawa State. The project was exclusively funded The commissioning of the hospital was done with
by the Oil and Gas intervention programme. modern medical Q facilities and equipment such as
Chief Timipre Sylva stated that the project was a MRI, CT-Scan and X-rays. The use of these modern
clear evidence and demonstration on the part of the facilities will improve response time of medical
Federal Government commitment to ensure that personnel to health-related matters of the people in
some level of normalcy returns to the North East the region and also enhance learning ability as
region by providing the critical infrastructure, laboratory testing and case management have been
security, education, healthcare, energy, services, integrated to one location. Consequently, patients
agriculture, human capital development, and poverty will have quicker response to infection confirmation
alleviation needed to bolster economic development and sample collection, and this will ensure early
in the North East. diagnosis, early treatment and reduce patient
The Minister of State suggested that it was important suffering and mortality in the state.
for the private sector and government to combine
resources, and to collaborate on important projects
as demonstrated by the intervention of the oil and
gas sector which was spearheaded by the ministry of
petroleum resources. The public private sector
initiative is intended to fast track development in the
region across various critical sectors that have been
damaged by the activities of the terrorists group.
Chief Timipre Sylva noted that this kind of
collaboration was sorely needed to jump start
MRI machine, state-of-the-art equipment available to the hospital

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