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Rotary club to donate wheelchairs, incubator to General hospital Ilorin

 

By Kayode Adeoti

As a way of giving back to the society, a Non Governmental Organization, (NGO); Rotary Club, Ilorin District, has promised to donate no fewer than five wheelchairs and an incubator to the General Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State.
The President of the GRA branch of the Rotary club in Ilorin, Rotarian Ayodeji Adeshina Olagunju disclosed this during a chat with Pilot Health in Ilorin, on Friday.
Olagunju noted that the club has observed that the hospital doesn’t have enough wheelchairs to facilitate movement of patients, hence the need to provide the mobility equipment.
He added that the wheelchairs and the incubator will be provided during the Rotary club family health week in November.
According to him, the gesture is borne out of the quest to support the government of the day in its quest to meet the needs of the citizenry.
He stated that the unit cost of one wheelchair is about N45,000 while the incubator will also be acquired at the rate of N800,000.
As a matter of principle, the club president posited that the organisation only extends such humanitarian gestures to government owned establishment.
“We are going to be providing wheelchairs to the General Hospital, there are times patients come in and they cannot walk, unless with the use of wheelchairs. We are not pleased as a club with this development and that is why we are looking for a way out.
“Rotary family health week is coming up in November, that is when it will be donated to the institution. We have done our findings to know the cost of one, it goes for about N45,000. We are looking at providing five. We are also looking at acquiring an incubator for the hospital, the cost is around N850,000. We prefer to buy it in Ilorin because of the after sales maintenance.
“We partner with government, government provides enabling environment because if it doesn’t, we won’t be allowed to bring in wheelchairs or incubator into the General Hospital. We don’t provide materials like this to the private institutions because we don’t want it to be paid for. We don’t want what somebody will be using to generate profit.
“Government is not giving us money, we are doing the spending but government is giving us the approval to end polio vaccines, is entirely a Rotary programme. The club funds the vaccines government is now trying to inject some funds into it after seeing the importance,” Olagunju explained.

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