Oyetola spoke during a community engagement programme
organised by the State’s Engagement Centre on Tuesday in Onigangan town,
Ayedire South Local Council Development Area of the state.
Oyetola who was represented by his Special Adviser on Civic
Engagement, Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye said that huge investment had been made
to revitalise the health sector and ensure restoration of healthy living among
the people.
He said In a bid to provide affordable health care to the
masses, the administration has ensured rehabilitation, revitalisation,
renovation and upgrading of 332 focal Primary Healthcare Centres across the
state.
“We have also upgraded and rehabilitated several comprehensive
health centres and general hospitals across the state so as to give adequate
healthcare delivery at the local communities.
“The administration had distributed drugs worth N50 million
across the state Primary Healthcare facilities as well as several new beds to
all health facilities across the state.
“The Specialist Hospital, Asubiaro, has also got rapt
attention with the constructions of 30 units of Doctors’ quarters, 120-bed
ward, as well as the renovation of major complexes, wards and laboratories”, he
said.
“We have also rehabilitated and revitalised the $500,000
Comprehensive Eye Care Centre, a joint project with the Lions Club
International, Multiple District 404 Nigeria, the initiative was aimed at
offering ophthalmological, medical, surgical and optical comprehensive eye care
services to the residents. the state to scale up access to quality eye service.
“To further boost quality health care delivery in the state,
69,273 cards were distributed to Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS)
beneficiaries.
“The administration has also taken it upon itself to ensure
continued sensitisation of residents on the importance of vaccination against
Coronavirus,” Oyetola said.
He further said another batch of 2 million doses of COVID-19
vaccine has been made available for the people of the state in a bid to
minimise the effect of the pandemic in the state.
In his remarks, the Executive Chairman of the State’s
Primary Healthcare Board, Mr Adeleke Ogunsola, said there was no doubting the
fact that the governor was passionate about quality health care delivery for
the masses.
Ogunsola said, “he never gets tired of our incessant needs,
always granting prompt approval of requests for counterpart funds for all our
health programmes.
Also speaking, the Baale Osunwoyin of Oke Osun, Micheal
Okanola Idowu, commended the governor for his giant stride in moving the state
forward in the area of health, education, infrastructure and empowerment.
The Chairman of Ayedire Local Government, Mr.Adigun Adejare
and his counterpart from the LCDA, Mr Femi Idowu, commended the governor for
his various social intervention programs and their positive impact on the
people.
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