Governor Abiola Ajimobi
of Oyo State has approved the procurement of essential drugs and medical
consumables for free distribution to all public hospitals and health centres
across the state.
A
statement issued in Ibadan on Monday by his Special Adviser on Media, Dr.
Festus Adedayo, said that this was after an approval of the sum by the State
Executive Council.
According to him, the
drugs, which would be supplied by 21 pharmaceutical companies within 30 days,
would cost the state government the sum of N177,528,000.
The
statement said that the drugs and medical consumables would be used in treating
common but endemic diseases such as malaria and in reducing maternal and child
mortality rate.
He
explained that the procurement of the drugs was necessitated by the fact that
the central medical stores at the Ring Road State Hospital, Ibadan had been out
of stock and there was the need to to refill the stock.
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