Yemisi Dada
As part of efforts to improve healthcare service delivery and reduce maternal mortality at the grassroots, an NGO WaterAid Nigeria has rehabilitated the Ogba Primary Health Center, PHC, in Ojodu Council Area.
The PHC also got medical equipment, five new delivery bed couchs, five new sanitation facilities while the existing six toilets were renovated to modern standards.
While handing over the rehabilitated Ogba PHC to Ojodu Council authority, WaterAid Nigeria Country Director, Ms Evelyn Mere, said the gesture in collaboration with Kimberly Clark Corporation was to ensure that the vulnerable especially women get access to Water and Sanitation facilities in Health centers which would reduce spread of diseases in the community.
“As we commission this facility, we call on the LCDA to prioritize the facility for sustainability by dedicating resources to operations and maintenance. We Call on the State Primary Healthcare Board to work toward replicating this across the state and provide effective oversight and support. We call on the community to take
ownership, ensuring that the center remains to serve generations to come. WaterAid remains committed to working with all stakeholders to ensure access to
sustainable WASH in health facilities in Lagos State.”
Permanent Secretary, Lagos Health District six, Dr Abimbola Mabogunje and representative of the Permanent Secretary Office of Drainage Services, Mr Mamoud Adegbite, commended WaterAid for the intervention and promised to replicate the WASH facilities model in other PHCs across the state.
“The Lagos State government is indeed grateful to WaterAid Nigeria for its interventions in the state and we remain committed to ensuring that the SDG goal 6 is achieved for the benefit of all residents in the state”
Appreciating the gesture on behalf of the over thirty thousand people who will access healthcare at the PHC, the Ojodu Council Chairman, Mr Segun Odunmaku, the CDC Chairman in Ojodu, Mr Segun Fayemi and the Council Medical Health Officer, Dr Tanimowo, thanked WaterAid for the numerous initiatives in building the capacity of health workers and provision of WASH facilities in rural areas in Lagos, with a promise to ensure constant maintenance of the facilities.
The newly renovated Ogba PHC was also provided with a Solar powered water treatment plant with fifteen thousand liters of water tank to serve users of the facility.
Memorandum of Understanding, MOU was also signed between WaterAid Nigeria and leadership of Ojodu LCDA.
Some of the medical equipment donated include Delivery Bed with padded Stirrups, Angle Poise Lamp, Resuscitaire, Anti Shock, Garments suctioning Machines, Autoclave, oxygen Cylinder (25 KG) and Oxygen Concentrator among others.