- Ekiti doles out medicines
No fewer than 10,000 expectant mothers across Oyo State will benefit from 30,000 dosages of malaria- preventing drugs donated to the state government by Hacey Health Initiative, as part of its effort towards adequate health care delivery to the people.
The beneficiaries, according to the Executive Director, Rhoda Robinson, were drawn from zones in the state.
Speaking in Ibadan at the official donation of the health commodities and presentation of Impact Health Data Management Dashboard to Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board (SPHCB), Robinson lamented that maternal mortality had become a big challenge across the nation, saying Hacey Health Initiative had promoted access to affordable and quality health care delivery service to the people.
She said Hacey Health Initiative in the last few years had been working with the state government to develop the Impact Health Solution, a digital platform that connected and coordinated data collection at the point of delivery.
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Speaking on behalf of the Commissioner for Health, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Soji Adeyanju, thanked Hacey for the gesture, saying its intervention in data gathering would help the state to prepare not just for the current generation, but also generations yet unborn in the betterment of health care delivery.
SPHCB Executive Secretary Dr. Muyideen Olatunji described the step as a welcome development and a way to strengthen the state by making it to retain its position as a pacesetter.
Ekiti State Government has distributed anti-malaria drugs and other medical products to over 200 hospitals across the 16 local governments.
The drugs were donated to the state by World Bank under its Immunisation Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transformation Services (IMPACT).
Health Commissioner Dr. Oyebanji Filani said the World Bank-sponsored project was aimed at defeating the scourge of malaria.
He said the Governor Biodun Oyebanji administration was committed to the eradication of malaria.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Olushola Gbenga-Igotun, the commissioner said the items will be given to residents free when they approach primary health facilities.
The Programme Manager of the project, Mrs. Helen Bankole, said Ekiti alongside other states, namely Lagos, Abia, Borno, Imo and Rivers were selected to be part of the project by the World Bank, to rid the state of malaria.