Oyo Health Commissioner highlights achievements at Inter-Ministerial Briefing
By Adewale Owoade
The Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, has listed the achievements of the Ministry of Health, including proactive health workforce expansion and elevated health access across the state.
Dr. Ajetunmobi made this announcement at the Governor’s Office Briefing Room during the Omituntun 2.0 Inter-Ministerial Briefing.
She noted that the Gov Seyi Makinde administration has also improved the health sector by recruiting thousands of health professionals and improving their welfare to address medical brain drain.
“We have reduction in neonatal mortality rate, infant mortality rate and under 5 years mortality rate.
”We also have renovations of our central medical diagnosis centers, upgraded of our primary healthcare to 10kva solar inverter system and recruitment of 332 healthcare workers at secondary healthcare facilities.
”Recruitment of 3,000 health workers at Primary healthcare board.
” We have increase in our internship quotas, we have more than 18,000 people reached during free health mission. We also have ongoing data analysis on cardiovascular risk for policy development,” Dr Ajetunmobi said
Dr. Ajetunmobi attributed the state’s ability to retain medical professionals to Governor Makinde’s foresight in improving the welfare packages of health workers and implementing measures to make the sector attractive to professionals.
This, she said, has helped to mitigate the impact of the “Japa syndrome” on the state’s healthcare system. (NAN)
