The Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Umar Yusuf has, on Thursday, commissioned a Multimillion Naira Hospital Equipment to be distributed to Primary Healthcare facilities in his constituency of Lokoja II.
Performing the ceremony in Lokoja, the Speaker, who dedicated the facilities to Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo, said it was a strategic step aimed at ensuring the healthcare centers that have received attention in the rural parts of Lokoja Local Government where he represents, got requisite tools for proper operation for improved healthcare delivery for his people.
He noted that the equipment, which costs about thirty million naira are part of his ways of demonstrating that he has not forgotten his campaign promises, stressing that beyond politics, a tragic passing of a woman in labour in his presence, during a certain past electioneering period drew his attention to the need to upgrade the health infrastructure of his people.
The Speaker said some of the young people he has sponsored to various higher institutions to study various medical programmes have graduated with over 25 others in various advanced levels, stressing that the facilities would come handy as they would man them to provide interventions that would reduce maternal mortality rates in various communities, and safeguard the health of the populace.
He said his intention covers Primary Healthcare Centers at the Local Government level with the state having its own interventions in other communities whose structures have been put in place for community use.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of Lokoja Local Government Area, Comrade Abdullahi Adamu expressed gratitude to the speaker for his love for humanity, adding that the facilities would help in ending maternal mortality in the rural areas of the council.
In their separate remarks, the incoming Chairman of the council, Hon. Hussein Idris Gentle and the Secretary of the Project Implementation Committee, Hon. Kashim Ishiaku Musa noted that the facilities would go a long way in improving the quality of healthcare delivery in Lokoja II and the Local Government in general.
