Taraba govt to allocate N100m to Hope Health Rehabilitation Centre

Wed, Nov 28, 2018 | By publisher


Health

GOV. Darius Ishaku of Taraba on Tuesday said that the state government would allocate N100 million to the Hope Health and Rehabilitation Centre, Jalingo to enhance its operations.

Ishaku disclosed this during the one year anniversary of the rehabilitation centre in Jalingo.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the centre is a unit of the Hope Afresh Foundation, a pet project of the governor’s wife, Mrs. Anna Ishaku.

The governor said that he was ready to include the health centre in the state’s annual budgetary allocations.

“Thank God, the speaker of the house of assembly is well represented here; the director of budgetary allocation is also here.

“’On my part, I am going to do everything humanly possible to ensure that the centre is included in the annual budgetary allocation of the state, and I will start with N100 million.”

Ishaku, who lamented the high level of drug abuse by the youths in the state, said that the health centre had rehabilitated many youths that were engaged in the illicit act.

He praised his wife for taking up the challenge by establishing the health centre that had saved many lives.

“You will not know the level of destruction drug abuse can do to a family until it happens to you.

“As governor, I receive cases of drug abuse everyday. I have tabled the case before the state security council,” he said.

He thanked his wife for the intervention had made massive impact, adding that a plot of land had been allocated for the health centre inside the premises of the Specialist Hospital, Jalingo.

“I will not want anybody, who comes after me, to misunderstand the concept and turn the clinic into a dumping ground.

“We will hand over the clinic to the specialist hospital when we are leaving government so that it can continue to help people long after we are out of government.”

Earlier, the governor’s wife had said that the one year anniversary celebration was to take stock of the success and challenges of the centre.

She disclosed that 13 persons with cases of drug abuse and other related metal problems were treated and discharged from the rehabilitation centre, and reunited with their families.

According to her, many other victims of drug abuse are still in the rehabilitation processes.

She, however, called on the people of the state and beyond to give the foundation both moral and financial  support to succeed.

NAN reports that some rehabilitated victims of drug abuse gave various testimonies at the occasion.

NAN also reports that the foundation has been into several other philanthropic activities in the state.

-NAN

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– Nov. 28, 2018 @ 9:55 GMT |

 

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