Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Account, Aliyu Ahmed Wadada has donated medical equipment to 10 general hospitals in his senatorial district of Nasarawa State.
Wadada represents Nasarawa West senatorial district at the upper chamber of the National Assembly on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The equipment donated to the hospitals include neonatal incubator, oxygen concentrator, hospital sterilizer, Lab centrifuges machines, neonatal weighing machine, medical oxygen cylinder, laryngoscope, surgical scalpel/blade/holder.
Others were bedside drawer, drip stand, surgical kits, patient trolley, hospital bed refrigerator, wheel chairs, binocular microscope, sphygmomanometer, medical stethoscope, nursery cots with mattresses and mosquito nets, thermometer oral and thermometer rectal.
The benefiting facilities include, General Hospital Keffi, Medical Centre Mararaba Gurku, General Hospital Uke, General Hospital Panda, General Hospital Garaku, General Hospital Nasarawa, General Hospital Udege, General Hospital Loko, as well as General Hospital Toto and that of Gadabuke.
The senator also trained 586 women on information and communication technology (ICT), agricultural value chains, fashion and design among others.
The beneficiaries were drawn from five local government areas of Keffi, Kokona, Nasarawa, Karu and Toto.
Those trained in ICT were given tablets and start-up capital of N100,000 each, while the fashion and design team got sowing machines and N20,000.
Also, those trained on agriculture value chain got 15kg seedlings, maize, sorgun, guinea corn, and one carton of herbicides, pesticides and knapsack spray each.
Speaking during the occasion, the senator said the gesture was aimed at empowering the people of his constituency.
“Providing skills to our teeming youths, ensuring that farmers get modern equipment will continue to be the focus of my representation,” he said.
