Kwara state has recorded at least a 35 percent rise in hospital patronage in the last three to four months, as the government focused on basic healthcare and equipping of the General Hospital Ilorin.“We will make sure that all our primary health centers are properly run and functioning very well. The government will also equip hospitals to meet the medical needs of the people. What you have seen here is a direction of where we are going,” De Alabi said.
Alabi, who represented governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the event, thanked the governor for his commitment to the welfare of the people.
Alabi said the government is determined to secure the services of qualified health personnel to provide quality healthcare services in the state.
“The combined medical and surgical mission is one of those key emergency strategies, meant to bring immediate relief to people that have common ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, infectious and non-infectious diseases,” he said, commending the governor, the management of the general hospital, the volunteers, and health ministry officials.
Sulaiman, who facilitated the surgical interventions, noted that the intervention had brought immediate relief to patients who would have been waiting for years due to a lack of funds to access medical care.
Director general of the Kwara state hospital management bureau, Dr. Oladimeji Aluko, commended the government for addressing the immediate healthcare of the people, saying that 70 percent of the beneficiaries are indigent Kwarans.
