KOGI: Health Institutions Deteriorating

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The State of Infrastructure of Health institutions in Kogi State is deteriorating especially primary health centers across the local government areas of the State.

While the state government has concentrated much attention on the tertiary health centers in Lokoja, the State capital and others in some major towns of the State, minimal attention has been shown to dispensary and community clinics across the 21 LGAs.

A visit across those health centres in the rural areas shows a complete state of despair with many of the building in dilapidated form. Aside from the dilapidated physical structures, majority of all the these health centres lack basic drugs and are also short of medical personnel.

At some of the dispensaries, only a nurse or one health official are left to manned them, with no trained medical doctors to attend to the medical needs of the rural people which has resulted in many of the rural dwellers seeking for medical attention in the cities despite the presence of such health centres in their communities.

Most time, its the intervention of special medical teams from non Governmental agencies or concerned individuals to the rural areas that aided the rural dwellers to access medical attention.

So far this year, the CEDIO medical team; a free rural medical programe of Governor Idris Wada has further attested to the fact that health centres in the rural communities fall short of its purpose as over 30,000 persons in the rural communities scattered across the 21 local government areas benefited from the medical team, with many of them stating that such programe is the only place that afford them the opportunity of having good medical attention.

The tertiary health centres in the cities are minimal. Only the Federal Medical centre in Lokoja shows the best of such institution as the Federal Medical centre in Ajaokuta has become obsolete lacking both in man power and medical equipment.

Not until recently was the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja equipped to handle cases of Diabetic heamolysis.

Also, the State Governor, Captain Idris Wada gave approval for the General hospital in Anyigba to be equipped into a teaching hospital as a result of the accreditation of the medical degree for the State University in Anyigba.

The State government owned health centers is not different from the Federal Government health centre. The modernized Specialist hospital in Lokoja is the only one in good operational condition coupled with the ongoing building of a diagnostic centre. But aside this, the General Hospital in Kabba, Egbe in the western Senatorial axis and Okene in the central senatorial axis though boast of enough medical staff but lack some basic equipment.

 

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