By Dare Akogun
The Senator representing Kwara Central and Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Dr Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe has yet again facilitated medical items worth millions of Naira to Magaji Are Health Center, located at Magaji Are Ward of Ilorin East Local Government Area to deepen access to quality healthcare services.
The intervention which was part of the year 2022 Capital Projects of the lawmaker was said to be in the advancement of the enduring desire to smoothen the path for the delivery of essential services to the people to improve general wellness.
Speaking during the delivery of the items to the facility, Sen Oloriegbe, represented by his media aide, Mr Bolaji Aladie stressed the importance of Primary Health Centers in the health sectors, saying the intervention is in fulfilment of the electoral promise to bring quality healthcare closer to the people at the grassroots.
According to him, “The PHC is an essential foundation that must be strengthened to bring quality healthcare services closer to the people at the grassroots to improve general wellness and provide comprehensive care to the underprivileged section of the society.
“Our principal remains resolute in his resolve to make essential health services accessible to everyone irrespective of socioeconomic status, this is evident in his various interventions to improve the health system across the country which culminated in the expansion of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to cast aside the financial barriers that restrain access to health services.
“We enjoin the management to make judicious utilisation of these items by using them for the purpose for which they were facilitated,” he advised.
In her reaction, the matron of the facility, Hajia Mopelola Husseinat expressed gratitude to the Senator for the gesture, describing it as unprecedented and hugely beneficial.
“We are very grateful to Dr Oloriegbe for considering our centre for this remarkable gesture that would go a long way in strengthening our services.
“This is an unprecedented intervention from an individual within my over three decades of working experience as a medical practitioner. I am awestruck and well pleased it happened during my time as head of this Centre.
“I must as well confess that his recent medical outreach that took place at this same facility had improved our patronage and this latest gesture will boost us further,” she added.
Some of the items handed over are Hospital Beds, mattresses, examination couches, suction machines, sterilizers, delivery couch, centrifuge manual vacuum, stretchers as well as Malaria RDT Kits.
Others include but are not limited to, motorbikes, generators, refrigerators, binocular microscopes, furniture and a host of others.
