The Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Azeez Adeduntan, on Tuesday said the state would launch a N50b endowment fund to resuscitate the health sector in the state.The event was part of this year’s Biomedical Annual General Meeting, which had the theme, ‘Public health logistics/supply chain management: Prospects, challenges and future directors for medical laboratory scientists’.
Adeduntan said the endowment fund would help the state government to fulfil its promise of making healthcare delivery affordable and accessible to the people of the state.
He said, “The fund is to be managed and monitored by foreign trustees and will be channelled to providing prompt and affordable healthcare delivery in the state.”
The guest speaker, Dr. Nasar Adebayo, who was represented by Akinola Franklin of Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, said logistics in healthcare system across the country was vital to determining the success of healthcare delivery.
He called on government to allow stakeholders such as laboratory scientists to be part of healthcare delivery by building their capacity, especially in stocking of healthcare products.
Source:MWN
