- Photo: Tambuwal (front) conducting executives of partner-Companies around premises of the project*
In few months the 1,500-bed capacity Sokoto State University Teaching Hospital (SOSUTH) is expected, upon take off, to avail the global medical industry with wide ranging and complex medical services, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said.
He added that areas of focus would be organ transplants, open heart surgery, laser surgery and urology, saying that the state has entered into a partnership with two firms: Samir Hani Group and Teoment Nigeria Limited to achieve the targets.
Conducting executives of the companies around the premises of the multi-billion edifice in the state capital, Gov. Tambuwal explained that the areas of collaboration between the state government and the companies include those of supply and installation of medical equipment such as: MRI,CT scan, heart/lung and laser machines in the hospital.
The compact on equipment, added the Governor also encompass the provision of other high-end state of the art medical gadgets to the hospital, just as the training of staff of the university is also envisaged by the government.
