Kwara to build West Africa’s largest oncology centre with N2.5bn grant from ASR Africa

ASR mandates completion before 2022

in West Africa.

“We appreciate the seriousness with which Governor Abdulrahman and his team have put to kickstart the project in line with our mutual accountability framework. We are moving to site as early as August and the chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has mandated that the oncology center must be completed before the end of 2022,” he added.

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq thanked the BUA Group chairman and initiator of ASR Africa for the grant, assuring that the construction will commence on-site before the end of August. He asserted that the oncology and diagnosis centre is a legacy project that will last for years and would be a priority project which will anchor the health care system, adding that Kwara State is open for business and would commence privatepublic partnerships in the healthcare sector to attain sustainability.

He also spoke on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, noting that the state recorded a low mortality rate during the peak of the pandemic because the government had rebuilt the oxygen facility to accommodate the high demand of oxygen, as well as strengthened systems to manage the pandemic.

Elvis Njoku (1st right), representative of the chief of defence staff; Tari-Timiye Gagariga (2nd right), representative of the chief of the army staff, deputy chief of policy and plans, and other senior officers during the 2021 Army Day celebration Interdenominational Church Service at Our:ady Queen of Martyrs Mogadishu Cantonment Asokoro in Abuja recently