Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole has promised to give a scholarship to an undergraduate drug user on admission at the Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno State.
Adewole visited the hospital as part of histour of Borno State for the Mid-Term Review of Health and Nutrition Emergency Response Project of the Federal Ministry of Health.
He said drug abuse among the youth is on decline because of massive awareness on the dangers of drug abuse.
The ministerinspected the hospital, interacted with the patients and played Table Tennis game with one of the patients – a 20-year-old (name withheld) undergraduate of Chemistry.
He promised to take up the teenager’s education, if he promise to stop using hard drugs.
“I will give you scholarship to any part of the world if you stop taking hard drugs. My protocol will get your contact and we will keep in touch,” Adewole promised.
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