Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Tambuwal has instructed the Sokoto Primary
Healthcare Development Agency to absorb 50 nurses and midwives trained by
SURE-P into the state civil service.
A statement issued by Tambuwal’s spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, said the
nurses and midwives formed the backbone of SURE-P’s maternal health
project executed in eight local government areas of the state in the last
two years.
“We intend to continue with the maternal health project in the state even
though the Federal Government has decided to halt the SURE-P programme,”
the statement quote Tambuwal as saying.
In addition, Tambuwal has also directed the primary healthcare agency
to, at the end of their training, employ all the midwives currently
undergoing the compulsory one year internship training so as to boost
manpower requirements in the state.
The affected professionals, which include both indigenes and non-indigenes
of Sokoto state, will be placed under Grade Level 7 under the scheme of
the agency.
The statement said already, funds have been provided by the government to
settle their salaries and other entitlements.
The last batch of trainees graduated on November 14, this year.