Governor Abba Yusuf while launching the Sickle cell centre and KNDCD. PHOTO: Tukur Muntari and Hussaini Ibrahim
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on Monday inaugurated a Sickle Cell Centre to provide comprehensive care for people living with sickle cell disease and unveiled a new office complex for the Kano State Centre for Disease Control.
The governor also flagged off the distribution of 300 customised digital blood pressure monitors to public servants and political appointees.
He also opened the symbolic distribution of free maternal and Accident and Emergency commodities, as well as new hospital bed sheets, at the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano.
Speaking during the inauguration, Yusuf said the Sickle Cell Centre was established to provide free diagnosis, counselling, treatment, follow-up care, patient education, health promotion and specialised management of sickle cell disease under one roof.
