The foreign scholarship of Kano state government has been making significant progress and achieving its desired goals, as the 1001 students keep returning in batches.
Amongst the recent graduates who excelled in their Masters degree programs, 54 students from India stood out, particularly in healthcare related courses.
Notably, 7 students specialized in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), a course focused on reversing infertility. This expertise is especially valuable in Northern Nigeria, where no hospital currently offers this technique.
The students through their postgraduate study on Embryology, had transferred this technique from the prestigious university, Symbiosis International University India, back to Kano state, with the intent to impart more on the staff of the Obstetrics and gynecology department.
Strategically, Kano state government, led by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, plans to deploy these newly trained health officials to the Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology department, to introduce Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).
With this development, one can say that, the foreign scholarship program of the Kano state government, is not only a blessing to the indigenes of Kano alone, but the entire northern region.
The Hospitals Management Board under the leadership of Doctor Mansur Mudi Nagoda, is up and doing to ensure all it takes to start implementing the new technique of ART is in place.
There is an insight into the ongoing preparations, including meetings between the Hospitals Management Board and the health officials who recently returned from India, to Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Teaching Haopital (MAWTH).
These discussions, focus on identifying gaps and assessing needs such as equipment and medication, to effectively launch Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and address infertility.
The beauty of the knowledge transfer, particularly on this ART, is that more health personnel would get to know how to do it, and it will keep spreading to a larger population within the obstetrics and gynecology departments across the state, and the entire northern states.
Furthermore, the processes of the ART that cost above N3,000,000, would be sponsored by the State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, meaning it is going to be free, just as free as maternal and postnatal care are in Kano. This is good news to all persons with infertility problems in Kano and the other northern states.
No doubt, the state government’s gesture on free maternal and postnatal care reduces maternal and morbidity rate in Kano, and with implementation of this new technique of ART, infertility will reduce to barest minimum.
This shows how the Abba Kabir Yusuf’s administration value human lives and human development.
Once Assisted Reproductive Technology is implemented, infertility will no longer be a barrier to having children in Kano and the wider northern region. Hence, the Kano Foreign Scholarship, is a blessing to entire North.
