The Ekiti
State government has promised to tackle all primary health issues confronting
people of the state as a means to sustaining the impressive records of the
state in the health sector.
Deputy
Governor of the state, Mrs. Funmi Olayinka while speaking in her office during
a courtesy call by the Primary Health Care Development Agency, led by the
permanent secretary, Primary health in the state ministry of Health, Mrs.
Folakemi Olusola Falore, said the state was determined to continue to create
awareness and champion immunization rather than rest on her oars as a state
that has being free from polio since the last sixteen years.
Olayinka
while hinting that the state was prepared to provide adequate fund for the
health institutions and health related
programmes to guarantee that the people of Ekiti continues to enjoy good
health, said the Dr. Kayode Fayemi led administration was prepared to address
the issue of obsolete equipments in its hospitals and primary health centres in
the coming year.
In her
address, Mrs. Falore who was accompanied on the call by the Director of Primary
Health in the Ministry, Dr. Joshua Ileke praised Ekiti mothers for their
awareness and cooperation in the agency’s bid to continue to ensure that Ekiti
is polio free.
Calling for
greater vigilance towards guiding against transfer of polio from influx of
persons from the Northern part of the country, she requested for adequate
funding for her agency, adding that greater awareness also needed to be created
in the state, especially.
Explaining
that Ekiti has the lowest prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the country, she said
the government is working assiduously to attain zero level. She also added that
the maternal mortality rate in the South West is 147 out of 100,000 births; the
best so far.
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