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Nursing mothers and patients using Egan Primary Health Center in Igando Ikotun Local Council Development Area of Lagos will now have a conducive environment to access healthcare and clean Water Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH, facilities.
This is because the Egan Primary Health Center, PHC, now wears a new look with provision of borehole, solar powered water treatment plant, which are all courtesy of an NGO, WaterAid Nigeria with funding support from PepsiCo foundation.
At the handing over of the rehabilitated Egan PHC, the Ikotun Igando LCDA, Chairman, Mr Akinsanya Lasisi, who was visibly elated, commended WaterAid Nigeria for the WASH facilities and promised to provide funding for the maintenance.
The LCDA Chairman handed down a strict warning to all staff of the PHC to ensure the facilities are put to good use for the benefit of residents of the Council, noting that deviance to the warning would attract sanctions.
“I want to warn all those who hibernate in this Secretariat that the local government authority will not condole that this facility is messed up, therefore I implored all staff and workers to ensure the judicious use of the WASH facilities, for the benefit of everybody in the council area to benefit dividends of democracy. We want to thank WaterAid Nigeria for this and like Oliver twist, we want more of such interventions in our LCDA”.
Representative of the Lagos Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Mrs Tutu Olokoba, who expressed appreciation to the development partners for their numerous WASH interventions in the state, assured that the state government would replicate such facilities in other rural areas.
The Country Director, WaterAid Nigeria, Mrs Evelyn Mere, who said the intervention was to ensure all the over twenty four million residents of Lagos have access to clean and safe water as part of the SDG goal 6, challenged the Lagos State government to use the model which is of international standards in other public facilities.
“What will do at WaterAid Nigeria is not just to provide services, but to ensure the overall well being of every individual which is their fundamental human right. WaterAid Nigeria is doing a lot that are meant for government but we will also implored the state government to use our WASH facility model for other constructions in the state which aligns with Global best practices”.
Some of the nursing and expectant mothers in the PHC appreciated WaterAid Nigeria while working tools were presented to the local female mechanics trained on the maintenance of the facilities.
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