We'll make health care delivery a priority'Oyo govt

THE present administration in Oyo State will continue to work with supporting partners to reposition and restored the lost glory of the state just as the government has said that the state experienced total infrastructural decay when it came on board a year ago.The Secretary to Oyo State Government, Alhaji Akin Olajide, stated this during the Ibadan Descendants' Union (IDU), Baltimore, United States of America (USA) award of certificate to participants of CPR and First Aid training programme and presentation of blood pressure monitoring machines to local governments at the School of Nursing, University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan, at the weekend. The state government scribe assured that government would not relent in its efforts at providing viable and affordable medical service delivery to all the communities in the state, adding that the government's free health care for the old people, children under five years and pregnant women would be given maximum priority in all the communities.Alhaji Olajide, however, said that the present administration was people-oriented and commended the Ibadan Descendants' Union for giving back to their respective communities and said that the government would continue to look for more assistance from the union in the nearest future.Earlier in his address, the president of the union, Dr Samson Ajayi, said that the non-profit making union, would continue to promote socio-cultural and economic development in Ibadanland and beyond and give viable assistance to members, particularly, Ibadan indigenes, the American cultural ways of life.'We recognise the role of sound health in the development of any community and the interest of the government in providing sound and qualitative health care to the people of the state. Health care is one of the major factors responsible for the difference in the life expectancy in developed countries, developing or under developed countries,' he said.While saying that the global economic recession had largely contributed to untimely death in developing nations like Nigeria through economic stress, he said that there was the need to be exposed to technique and equipment to predict and guide against preventable and untimely death.He, however, said that the union entered into partnership with the UCH to train medical staff at the community level on how to perform Cardiao Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid with the nomination of two participants from each of the 11 local governments in Ibadanland and charged the benefitting participants to avail themselves of the opportunity by preventing and reducing untimely death in their respective communities.
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