Lafia Teaching Hospital: Al-Makura hails President Buhari for assenting bill

A serving senator of Nasarawa South senatorial Zone, Sen. Umaru Al-Makura, has expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for assenting to the bill for the establishment of the Federal University of Lafia Teaching Hospital.

The senator who is the immediate past governor of Nasarawa State, gave the commendation in an interview with Journalists on Sunday in Lafia.

According to the senator, “I am excited and I am filled with unlimited joy that by the special grace of God, something that I conceived when I was the governor has materialized.

“I conceived the idea of a Teaching Hospital in 2012 when the delegation from the Federal Government visited us at that time for the take off of the Federal University of Lafia.

“I even went ahead and improved the structures and equipment at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital Lafia and also built another separate structure befitting of a teaching hospital in Lafia.

“So after my tenure as a governor, I was elected to serve as a senator and I decided to continue with the dream of having a Teaching Hospital in Lafia to serve the University.

“I therefore sponsored the bill for the establishment of the Teaching Hospital and it had undergone all the necessary legislative processes and passed in September 2022 thank God the President had graciously assented to it recently.”

He said the hospital would be of enormous benefit to the state and beyond in terms of training more medical doctors and addressing the various health needs of the people.

The senator said he has attracted a lot of federal government presence to his constituency and promised to do more to improve the welfare of his people.

The bill for the establishment of the Teaching Hospital Lafia was among the bills signed into law by the President recently.