Ariyoh refurbishes Shogunle PHC, Sokunle offers to take up Ewutuntun centre
By Edith Igbokwe
Health services at the grassroots will receive fresh boost in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area (LGA) soon as both incinbent chairman Hon. Bolaji Muse Ariyoh and House of Assembly member Hon. Hakeem Shokunle have resolved to do more.
Ariyoh recently commenced full renovation of Shogunle Primary Health Centre as a move to boost the health sector at the grassroots.
The council chairman had early this year during his visit to the health centre promised to give the centre a new facelift with provision of the needed equipment.
The massive renovation which stated some week ago was said to have reached the final stage and will be delivered for use soon.
According to the chairman, the primary health centre is not only receiving a new facelift but is also equipped with the necessary facilities needed to make the centre more functional for quality health service delivery as envisioned.
In the same vein, the member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Oshodi-Isolo Constituency I, Hon. Hakeem Sokunle, has offered to intervene in fixing the challenges hindering the smooth running of Ewutuntun Primary Health Centre.
During his oversight visit to the centre recently as the Chairman, House Committee on Health, Sokunle discovered the major challenge of the centre to be bad roads which have been hindering people from accessing the health facility and limiting the full capacity utilisation of the centre.
While stating the challenges of the PHC, the Medical Officer of Health (MOH), Dr. Osinachi Ubani, disclosed that they don’t run 24 hours services due to insufficient workforce and lack of some needed facilities to keep patients overnight at the centre, making them refer pregnant women to Ogunlana or Ajibulu PHC for delivery after 36 weeks of antenatal programme.
She however listed the basic 8 hours service programmes of the centre to include health care services, immunization programme, family planning, drug dispensation, HIV testing and counselling programme and antenatal programme which are done on Monday to Friday between the hours of 7am to 4pm on daily basis.
In her own comment, the Officer In Charge (OIC), Mrs. Yahaya A.J. said the health centre is functioning but records low patronage as a result of the bad roads leading to the location.
Responding as the chairman of Committee on Health at the State Assembly, Sokunle stated that to upgrade the PHC, the state, local government, community leaders and the market leaders have to sit to reach an agreement so that the best can be injected into the health care system of Ewutuntun PHC.
Concerning the issue of bad roads that lead to the PHC, he promised that something would be done as he implored the community members to keep emphasising on the project at the next stakeholders’ meeting, saying the issue would be addressed with the support of the state government.
The vice Chairman of Oshodi Isolo Local Government, TPL. Daisi Osho also assured that the local government would work with the state government to fix the road as soon as possible.
