Kunle Adelabu
A medical expert, Dr Mohammed Abayomi Hassan, has charged the Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on the need to develop its Primary Health Centres to cater for people at the grassroots who are in need of medical attention, to reduce pressure on the General Hospital in Ikorodu.
The retired medical doctor, a resident of Ibeshe area of Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA who said that the only existing PHC in Ibeshe, is almost non – functional, gave the charge at the Oke – Ota community where a large number of residents were provided with free medical care by Abayomi Adelakun Foundation founded by the Chairman of the council’s Community Development Committee (CDC), Pastor Abayomi Adelakun.
“The health system in Ibeshe, is still at the primary level. We have seen people who would ordinarily have gone down to the General Hospital, coming here because of the state of the PHC. These are people that would have just sat back at home if not for this medical outreach that prompted them to come out”, Dr Hassan said.
“With this kind of outreach, people would get more aware about their health, and we expect them to do a follow up based on our interactions with them.
“The single Primary Health Centre for the whole of Ibeshe, is almost non – functional. This is inadequate”.
Dr Hassan said that the presence of a functional PHCs in Ibeshe and other rural communities, would go a long way in serving both the people and the government.
“Ibeshe is not what it used to be 10 years ago. It has expanded. There are many people residing in Ibeshe and they need more primary health care centres instead of just one. They needed up to four Primary Health Centres. They are in need of well – manned Primary Health Centres that would serve the communities”, he said.
“This would serve the benefit of the government and the people in the sense that the General Hospital in Ikorodu would be less populated.
“The pressure on the General Hospital would reduce considerably, because all the people that need primary health care would have been sorted out at the Primary Health Centres, and the people with secondary health care can go to the General Hospital.
“So, it is in the interest of the government if they can put in place more functional primary health units in Ibeshe, because of its population”, he charged.
