The Osun APC Governorship Campaign Council has accused the administration of Ademola Adeleke of taking the state health sector back to the primitive age where life.
The party said the recent assessment of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, placed Osun State in the unfortunate 35th position among states with functional primary health centres in the country.
“According to the agency, Osun State recorded the second-highest number of non-operational primary health centres in Nigeria with 326 facilities lying dormant,” the APC campaign council stated.
In a statement by Engr Oluremi Omowaiye, Head, Media and Publicity Committee, the Osun APC Governorship Campaign Council, said the latest assessment is a confirmation of the APC’s criticism of Adeleke’s administration towards healthcare delivery.
“This embarrassing and disgraceful report is a sharp contrast to the giant strides recorded under the APC administration of Adegboyega Oyetola,” the statement noted.
It added, “Under the APC government, Osun State was rated 6th position by the same federal agency with an outstanding performance score of 87% in the assessment conducted in August/September of 2022. Before the Oyetola administration, the state had been adjudged 32nd with a miserable 8% performance rating.
“The APC ensured General Hospitals in Ife and Ejigbo, among other places, were reconstructed while no fewer than 332 primary health centres were revitalized across the state. At the State Specialist Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo, the last APC government upgraded a 120-bed ward with a state-of-the-art amenities and equally constructed 30 flats for medical doctors in order to improve healthcare delivery and welfare for health personnel.
“Sadly today, the administration of Governor Adeleke has brought calamity upon the health sector in the state as healthcare has become insanely expensive, being one of the major sources of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the government. Medical services and drugs are now far beyond the reach of the average citizen. For any pregnant woman to undergo a Caesarean Section (CS) in a state-owned hospital, she must be prepared to cough out not less than N500,000—an amount comparable to what is charged in some private hospitals.”
The APC campaign council said rather than improving on the primary health management bequeathed to it by the previous administration, the Adeleke government repainted the inherited health centres and surreptitiously and mischievously changed the commissioning plaques to claim edits for projects previously done and commissioned by the APC government.
“The state hospitals are grossly understaffed as 515 medical doctors, pharmacists, radiologists and other health professionals painstakingly recruited by the Oyetola administration were illegally and maniacally sacked by the Adeleke government without any meaningful replacement till date.
“In almost four years of the Adeleke administration, not a single flat has been added to the 30 residential flats built by the Oyetola administration for medical doctors.
“Only last year, there were disturbing reports alleging that officials of the state government looted and moved health equipment from the federal government-owned Child and Mother Hospital, Osogbo, for the purpose of securing accreditation for programmes at the state university teaching hospital Osogbo because the Adeleke administration failed to invest in its own facility, therefore the hospital lacked the required equipment for accreditation,” the statement added.
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