Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa State said it has treated and reunited 70 homeless mentally ill people with their families.

Alhaji Uzairu Nadabo, Chairman of the Council, disclosed this known in a chat with reporters yesterday in Maigatari.

Nadabo said the council spent N1 million on logistics during the treatment of the patients at Kazaure Psychiatric Hospital.

He said most of them were picked from the streets where they were sleeping in the open.

According to him, some of them, after being recovered identified who they are and thereafter reunited with their families.

He announced plans by the council to improve the standard of health care service delivery in the area for the well-being of the people.  Nadabo said the council would increase its spending in the 2022 fiscal year to focus on equipping health centres located in rural communities.  The council, he said, had so far rehabilitated a significant number of dilapidated structures in most of the 87 public schools in the area, adding that the learning environment was much better.