Kwara State Government, in the last three months, has recorded 35 per cent rise in hospital patronage, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said. He added that the feat was borne out of the government’s focus on basic health care and the recent equipping of the General Hospital, Ilorin.

 

The governor spoke at the weekend at the closing ceremony of the free medical and surgical interventions, at the General Hospital, Ilorin. Represented by his deputy, Kayode Alabi, AbdulRazaq said: “We’ll make sure that our primary health centres are properly run and functioning very well. The government will also equip hospitals to meet people’s medical needs. What you have seen here is a direction of where we are going.”

 

The surgical interventions, in which 500 persons benefitted, was sponsored by the government in partnership with the Kwara State Association of Nigeria, North America (KSANG) and Sakinah Medical Outreach.”

 

AbdulRazaq said the government was determined to secure the services of qualified health personnel, to provide quality health care services.

 

The Special Adviser on Health Matters to the Governor, Prof. Wale Sulaiman, said the just concluded surgical mission was a follow-up to the medical mission held across the three senatorial districts where about 2,500 patients were attended to by volunteer doctors from Sakinah Medical Outreach.

 

“The combined medical and surgical mission is one of those key emergency strategies to bring immediate relief to people that have common ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, infectious and non-infectious diseases,” he said.