The Yobe State government spends about N360 million annually to provide free dialysis services at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH), Damaturu, the hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Baba Goni, has said.
Mr Goni said the hospital conducts between 600 and 700 free haemodialysis sessions every month under the programme, which has been running since 2017.
He disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Thursday.
According to him, the hospital spends N30 million monthly on the programme.
“In dialysis, you don’t count the number of patients because one patient can have two or three sessions in a week,” he said.
