Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday hosted a team of five officials from General Electric International over issues of maintaining some diagnostic equipment, including a CT scan, supplied and installed by the company at the state’s specialist hospital in Maiduguri.
GE’s team was led by Joyce C. Shyngle-Wigwe, Executive Director for Government Affairs and Policy in West Africa, while Governor Zulum had in his team, Borno State Commissioner of Health, Dr Aliyu Salihu Kwaya Bura and some government officials at the meeting, which held at Borno’s liaison office in Abuja.
The meeting, which lasted about 30 minutes, discussed some aspects of maintenance in a contract entered between Borno government and GE back in 2016, which led to the installation of sophisticated diagnostic equipment, completed in February 2019.
The meeting resolved outstanding issues that aim to strengthen the use of CT scans for diagnosis of patients at Borno’s specialist hospital.
GE also gave the governor an update on an MoU reached with northern governors in previous years, for generation of electricity through solar technology, to power Maiduguri water plant and some public installations.
Governor Zulum requested for documents supporting GE’s update, while promising a thorough review of the submission, to determine government’s next line of action.