MOH seeks more workers for better services
By DamilolaKushimo
The Medical Officer of Health (MOH), Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Dr. BaqiahNojimudeen-Yesufu, has urged state health authorities to employ more workers and provide more work spaces to boost health services to citizens.
She listed the challenges while receiving the House Committee on Health of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LSHA) when it visited the council recently.
The committee led by its chairman, Hon. Akeem Shokunle who represents Oshodi-Isolo Constituency I, visited the council to have first- hand information about the health facilities and their challenges to recommend solutions to the government.
Responding to the committee’s enquiries, the MOH emphasised that although all the seven primary health care centres, PHCs in the council area are functional and the Ilasamaja PHC operates 24-hours, shortage of nurses and medical record officers, inadequate spaces to accommodate patients and other environmental challenges limit their impact.
The committee chairman, who noted the challenges, promised that the government would find solutions to them as the challenges are not peculiar to Isolo LCDA.
He said other council areas across the state complained of the same challenges, saying the committee would invite all MOHs across the state to discuss the way forward.
He explained that the committee was inspecting all the PHCs in the state to identify their challenges and proffer solutions as part of the state government efforts to revive the health sector from the grassroots.
