The Federal Government has approved a 50 per cent subsidy on electricity tariff for public hospitals across the country.
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa disclosed this on Thursday, 29 August while commissioning some projects at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital and National Eye Centre in Kaduna.
At the event, the minister commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply at the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarization project at the dialysis unit, comprising a solar-powered borehole backed by a 10.2 KVA inverter which comes with a lithium battery at the Abdulkareem Jika Yusuf COVID-19 Intervention Centre at the psychiatric hospital.
He also disclosed the plan of the federal government to change the identities of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospitals to bear ‘specialist hospitals’ as part of measures to expand care delivery and destigmatize the hospitals for everybody to patronize.
