Rep. Abbas Tajuddeen (APC-Zaria) has constructed and donated a Primary Healthcare Centre to Kwarbai community in Zaria city of Kaduna State.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the health facility was equipped with hospital beds, drugs, health personnel, doctor’s residence, an ambulance and a motorised solar borehole.

NAN also reports that the healthcare centre will be supervised by the Leprosy and Tuberculosis Centre, Saye, Zaria, in collaboration with the Kaduna State Government and the lawmaker.

Speaking at the formal handing-over of the facility to the management of Leprosy and Tuberculosis Centre in Zaria on Sunday, Tajuddeen said the gesture was meant to enhance community access to healthcare services.

The lawmaker, who did not disclose the amount spent on the structure, promised to continually assist his constituents in the areas of education, health, sports, religion and other spheres of life.

Tajuddeen lamented that the facility was earlier handed-over to Zaria Local Government Council but the council was unable to manage it.

According to him, this is what influenced his decision to seek for assistance and collaboration with the Leprosy Centre and Kaduna state government to enable Kwarbai community maximally benefit from the facility.

The legislator observed that there was no need for politicians to bring project(s) that would not be beneficial to the electorate which would not be put to use.

“I always pray, if a project will not be of benefit to my people, I better leave it at all, because, there is no need for citing a project just for political reasons.

“Some of our politicians do sponsor project(s), commission and organise ceremonies for inauguration but after sometimes the place will be abandoned.

“This is indeed a waist of public fund, this is one of the reasons that we strive hard to ensure that this facility extends the needed healthcare services to Kwarbai community through collaborative efforts,” he said.

Dr Labaran Shehu, the Principal, Leprosy and Tuberculosis Centre, Zaria, said it was not the first community healthcare facility being managed by the centre.

“This is the third facility we are going to be running in order to extend a hand of friendship to the neighbouring communities.

“The main duty of our centre is treatment of Tuberculosis, Leprosy and HIV/AIDS, but as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari that the hospital shouldn’t restrict itself to that alone, it should expand.

“That’s why we extend services to some hospitals close to us including our main clinic at Saye, a community healthcare at Magume and now Kwarbai after following due processes and got approval from the Federal Government,” he said.

Shehu said the centre would provide the new healthcare facility with health personnel who would be working 12 hours, from morning to sunset.

“This is because any hospital without blood bank will be a risk to receive women on delivery except those without any problem.

“However, we have a brand new ambulance courtesy of the member, in case of anything, patients can be referred to our main clinic at Saye or they can be taken to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika or Wusasa.

“This facility will be providing observation and treatment of malaria, typhoid and antenatal care, among others, so as to give the surrounding communities the needed health assistance.

“Apart from that, Tuberculosis and HIV drugs will be supplied to the facility, so that people from this community need not to go to Saye for treatment of Tuberculosis and HIV,” he assured.