The Health Commissioner of the State of Oyo, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, explained that the policies implemented by the state government in the health sector have led to the general improvement of the sector and also helped mitigate the effect of the Japa syndrome by medical professionals.
Dr. Ajetunmobi said that these policies have resulted in a better quality of lives for state residents, the reduction of maternal mortality rates, infant mortality rates, mortality rates below 5 and updating hundreds of health and infrastructure facilities.
The commissioner spoke on Thursday, while he was addressed to journalists in the information room of the Governor's Office, during the morning session of the Interministerial Information Session omituntun 2.0, pointing out that the administration Seyi Makinde of the governor has also improved the health sector by recruiting thousands of health professionals and improving their well -being to address the medical brain drainage.
He listed the other achievements to include a better provision of services and training, improved reference links between primary, secondary and tertiary levels, state digital integration and the expansion of the proactive health workforce, as well as the high access of health throughout the State, and the Government renewed several other health facilities in the secondary and tertiary health sectors.
Chestunmobi added that the State also registered other achievements, including the recruitment of 332 health workers in secondary health centers and the increase in internship fees, the current data analysis on cardiovascular risk for the development of policies, the achievement of success prior to the fees and the initiated for the free lugs of filariasis, the resanjation of the oxygen plant and Renewal of accidents and the emergency unit of the Laishecnecusados of the accessories of the accessories of the Collegiate Accessories of the Latec Colleges of the Filariasis. In student intake share.
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She revealed that the state government also registered successes with the Free Free omituntun medical mission, which has reached hundreds of thousands of residents and the enrollment of more than 121,000 residents, including pensioners, public students of primary school and people living with disabilities in the health insurance scheme of the state of Oyo.
Dr. Ajetunmobi said that the Makinde administration left a great brand in the area of primary health care, saying that “in the area of primary health care, the state of Oyo has been leading with vision, courage and action. At the time that many states are grabbing with the basic concepts of health benefit, the state of Oyo that advanced very much, with a powerful example of how to transform the people of the people Primary health in a primary health service, with the state of the people of the people of the sustainable people and the cavation of care, the system that gave later, which gave a system throughout, which gave an example of the primary health people in a primary health people, with the state of the people who have a sestitable and worthy.
She said that 212 primary health care centers have been renewed and equipped, while another 87 are at several levels of completion, explaining that of the 212 PHC that are completely renewed and equipped, the government is currently revitalizing 106 to the health facilities of L2/L3 for the purposes of basic emergency and emergency snow care.
Of these 106, the Commissioner said that 66 PHC are being updated with the provision of a 10KVA solar investor system for 24 -hour food supply, red brick incinerator, computer tablets units for EMR, medical equipment such as nebulizer, oximeter pulse, oxygen cylinders, care care points, among others.
Talking about how the State has been able to retain its medical professionals in the middle of the growing challenges posed by Japa Syndrome, Ajetunmobi said that the government has been able to achieve this due to the forecast of Governor Makinde to improve the welfare packages of health workers and establish different measures so that the sector is attractive to professionals.
She said: “We have about 260 doctors in the state. Initially, we had around 350, but due to Japa syndrome and because some people retire. The state government has embarked on a mass recruitment to reduce the deficit. In the Primary Health Care sector, we recruit approximately 3,933 health professionals and ensure that we have at least one medical officer in each of the local governments.
So, now we have 33 new medical officers. We also have some who are PHC coordinators; Some of them are also doctors, and can supervise what is happening. We could have had more, but because some of our people retired and others moved.
Let me also say that this number excludes doctors from the Teaching Hospital of the Technological University of Akintola, ogbomoso. I think we have about 100 doctors there. In addition, they have resident doctors and medical students who are helping at work at Lautech Teaching Hospital.
The government of the state of Oyo has been trying to financing, but it cannot be avoided that people say they want to go. Some will say that they want to go to academic courses or master's degrees and simply go like this. So, what we have put in place is a mechanism for replacement. See now, they immediately replace it with someone who wants to work.
Another thing we have been able to do is that some of our retired consultants or retired personnel who are agile and that are still willing to work, give them the opportunities to enter and work. They are the ones who will now say, okay, I will come twice a week or three times per week. That is also ongoing. Another thing is the approval of the assignments and we have done it. Those are some of the things we are doing to encourage our professionals to continue staying. ”
Speaking about the projections of the Ministry, Dr. Ajetunmobi said that the Government would work to renew the secondary health centers through a subsidy of 55 million euros, that the state government has been processing from the French government; expand reference systems through primary, secondary and tertiary care; Promote digital health infrastructure and electronic health records; increase access and equity in the provision of medical care services; Scale of recruitment and training initiatives of the workforce, among others.