By Gbenga Sodeinde
Federal government, through the office of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has distributed about 500 hospital beds among other medical items to 158 primary healthcare centres in Kwara state for quality healthcare service delivery to the people.
Speaking with journalists during the distribution in Ilorin, the Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Hajia Nusirat Elelu, who was full of appreciation to the FG for the intervention, said that other items distributed included mattresses, gloves, side-lockers etc.
Elelu, who said that the intervention would support commitment of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in the state’s health care sector, added that, “Through the office of the state primary health care agency, we now have at least one functional health facility in 158 wards out of the 193 wards in the state.
She said that the outstanding 37 wards would be accredited to
benefit from the state basic health care provision fund within the next quarter.
“These beds are coming at a timely period because we are going to be able to furnish our health facilities with the state of the art beddings and mattresses as well as side lockers that would improve the infrastructural outlook of our PHC.
“Right now, we have already asked local governments to generate list of facilities so that we can identify the gaps in bed requirements in each of the facilities.
“About 1,600 beds were requested for to be distributed to health facilities based on needs. Like Oliver Twist, we are asking for more equipment which we believe is on the way to support primary healthcare”.
She also expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for finding Kwara state worthy of the number of items presented, saying that the items would be judiciously utilized for quality healthcare delivery.
Also speaking, the Senior Special Assistant on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to the state governor, Dr. Jemilat Bio, said that the governor’s commitment to health sector, especially the primary health care in the state, attracted the intervention.
“Not every state qualified for this intervention and support from the office of the special assistant to the president on on SDGs because they are actually watching and the state is proactive.
They are encouraged to support proactive governor. I thank him for his proactive nature and I also thank him for accelerating the basic health care provision fund in the state. This is an effort basically to augment what he is doing in the primary health care sector of the state”, she said.
While conducting journalists round the basic health care provisional facilities at Baboko ward clinic and maternity, Alapata, Ilorin, Kwara state, he Executive Secretary Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Nusirat Elelu expressed delight on 2023: Kwara North APC elders endorse Abdulrazaq for second term
Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kwara North senatorial district have declared
support for re-election of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq for second term.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday, the APC Elders, in an address ready by Ambassador Nuruddeen Mohammed, said that the only assignment left for the party delegates at the forthcoming party’s primary election on May 26, 2022 is to nominate the governor since no aspirant had expressed intention to contest against him.
They also expressed their support for re-election of Senator Sadiq Umar representing Kwara North senatorial district, saying that: “It has been widely acknowledged by our party members and people in the five local government areas of Kwara North senatorial district that the incumbent Senator Sadiq
Suleiman Umar, has performed and served the people of Kwara North Senatorial District with humility, most diligently in the past three years of coming to office.
The party elders, who hinged their support for the governor on his high performance in the past three years, said that : “We, therefore, feel that he deserves another opportunity to serve our people and do much more for them. One good turn, it is said, deserves another”.
Mohammed added that:”Our position, which is contrary to the decision of the main opposition party, the PDP, which announced recently that its own candidate should emerge from Kwara North Senatorial District, is borne out of the fact that the incumbent and high performing governor, Mallam
Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is constitutionally entitled to second term of office.
“We are also giving him our support for his re-nomination for the office of governor again because of the fact that in the history of Kwara state, no governor or administrator except him, has done so much to develop the entire state and in particular, Kwara North Senatorial District, in just three years of administration of Kwara state.
“We, therefore, feel that he deserves another opportunity to serve our people and do much more for them. One good turn, it is said, dneserves another.”
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