The Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmad Aliyu, on Monday, disguised to pay an unannounced visit to the Sokoto Specialist Hospital.
The governor was at the medical facility to inspect the quality of services provided by the outfit, according to Malam Abubakar Bawa, the Press Secretary to the governor.
In a statement on Monday, Bawa said the governor decided to pay an unscheduled visit to the hospital because of the litany of complaints and concerns expressed by citizens who constantly lament the deplorable state of affairs at the hospital.
He also disclosed that the visit was also engendered by the governor’s need to have a first-hand assessment of its decrepit structures, erratic power supply, dearth of manpower and lack of functional medical equipment, among others.
He stressed that Aliyu visited the hospital in a tricycle in order to get first-hand information from its workers.
Quoting the givernor, the Bawa statement remarked, “I was surprised with what I saw during my visit to the hospital which lasted for four hours; it afforded me the opportunity to see things for myself.
“Patients and their relatives are subjected to all kinds of hazardous situations owing to dirty environment and lack of functional equipment in the medical facility.
“Patients’ relatives rely solely on alternative sources of power due to erratic electricity supply in the hospital.
“I have directed the management of the hospital to see me for further discussions on how to remedy the ugly situation,” Bawa further quoted the governor as saying.