Members of the Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Health and Environment have expressed worry over the deplorable condition of most government-owned hospitals in the state.
Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Ahmed lbn-Mohammed, who visited some of the hospitals in company of another member of the committee, Hon. AbdulRafiu AbdulRahman, described as obsolete equipment available at the health facilities.
Mohammed noted that none of the state government owned hospitals can adequately attend to emergency situations of any kind with their present facilities.
The lawmaker noted that there was no substitute to functional health in any society, stating that provision of qualitative health to residents of the state should be a social service.
He therefore appealed to the state government to upgrade facilities in all the state owned Health institutions to enable them provide qualitative health services to residents of the state.
At the Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin, the Chairman of the Committee wondered why the oxygen plant meant to serve the North Central part of the country is in the state of disrepair since many years ago.
He said the committee would investigate why the oxygen plant put in place with millions of naira by the state government is no more functioning.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Sanni Musa while addressing the committee, identified lack of portable water, obsolete equipment, epileptic power supply and inadequate workforce as challenges facing the hospital.
Musa lamented that the hospital which was established in 1983 cannot meet the health needs of residents of the state as a result of what he called, meagre and inconstant monthly running cost from the state government.
At the Children Specialist Hospital, Centre lgboro in llorin,ย the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee at the hospital who represented the Chief Medical Director, Dr Mosunmola Folorunsho and a medical officer at the facility, Dr Mrs Kudirat Lambe called for upgrading of the hospital.
The two practitioners identified obsolete equipment, lack of electricity and meagre monthly tuning cost as challenges facing the hospital.
The Chairman of the Committee while addressing the management staff of the Civil Service Clinic in llorin said a sum of N200 million had been approved in 2018 budget for the renovation of the hospital.
He advised the hospital management to further improve on the sanitary condition of the facility to avoid spread of communicable disease.
