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The Plateau State government has pledged to construct the abandoned road leading to the COCIN Rehabilitation Centre, Sabon Line Mangu to reduce the hardship faced in accessing medical services.

Governor Simon Lalong made the promise when a team of Plastic and Orthopedic Doctors from the Netherlands led by Dr. Cornelius Sprong paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Rayfield, Jos last Thursday.

Represented by the Deputy Governor, Professor Sonni Tyoden, Lalong pointed out that there could be no better priority than the health of the people, hence the need for government to use the little resources at its disposal to provide basic facilities to the citizens.

The medical doctors had worked with the Sudan United Mission (SUM) since 1950 to provide medical services to the people as a Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre and since then the centre has been expanded to provide general health services to the people of the state.

Governor Lalong told the visiting doctors that government was aware of the state of the road and it would definitely do some thing about it.

He expressed gratitude to the doctors for the laudable programmes being carried out in the centre over the years.

According to the governor their activities in the leprosy and Rehabilitation Centre have added value to the health needs of the people as well as governance in the country and the state in particular.

Earlier, leader of the team, Dr. Cornelius Sprong had informed the governor that the centre was established in 1950 in conjunction with the Sudan United Mission to take care of leprosy patients and that it has been expanded to cater for the general health services.

Dr. Sprong who disclosed that the team visits the centre three times a year to provide medical services, especially for children who suffered burns as a result of fire incidents leprosy, cripple people from polio added that this time around they were expected to attend to not less than 250 patients.

He then appealed to the state government to assist in constructing the poor state of the road leading to the hospital, take up the payment of doctors and nurses working with the rehabilitation centre.

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