Laleye Dipo in Minna In Niger State, new health facilities to provide intensive care to patients were inaugurated at the IBB Specialized hospital Minna. At the inauguration, Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago announced that 1500 medical personnel were employed into the health sector of the state in one year. Bago, also speaking at the event, said a memoranda of understanding (MOU) had been signed with the Government of Egypt and the Soviet Union to provide consultants that would manage the facilities and also train Nigerian Medical Personnels on the operation of the equipment in the facilities. “These (facilities) have been adjudged as the only one in sub Saharan Africa,” Bago declared, before saying that the facilities will stop medical tourism and provide cheap medical treatment to patient...