Photo: Katsina State Government
₦703m to secure 14 general hospitals in frontline LGAs
Higher perimeter fences, rebuilt walls and barbed wire for 14 general hospitals, approved in July 2025 with an upgrade of Mai'adua to a General Hospital.
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General hospitals secured
In July 2025 the State Executive Council approved ₦703 million to raise and rebuild the perimeter fences of 14 general hospitals and fit them with security barbed wire, to protect patients and staff from bandit attacks.
The hospitals are in Kankara, Jibia, Batsari, Kafur, Malumfashi, Dandume, Funtua, Dutsin-Ma, Faskari, Musawa and Danmusa, plus facilities in Katsina including the General Amadi Rimi Specialist Hospital.
The same meeting awarded a contract to upgrade the Comprehensive Health Centre in Mai'adua to a General Hospital. THISDAY put that contract at ₦1.2 billion and Nairametrics at ₦1.3 billion.
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Figures are as reported in these sources. Most are the state government's own statements.
