Ondo state Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Thursday, 23rd August 2018 commissioned and distributed multi - million naira worth of medical and laboratory equipment to health facilities across the 18 local government areas of the state.
The equipment commissioned and distributed by the Governor include : Microscopes, Bench Centrifuge, Improved counting chamber, Micro - haematocentrifuge, Micro-hematocrit reader, Glucometers and strips, Widal test kits, Oxygen concentration (with in-built inverters), Oxygen face masks and Laboratory reagents of various types.
Governor Akeredolu noted that the exercise was the first phase of equipping primary health facilities of the Minimum Service Package (MSP) pillar of the Primary Health Care under One Roof (PHCUOR) policy of the Federal government.
He said that the exercise was to ensure that at least one unit of a well - equipped, standardised and functional laboratory is available in each of the Local Government Areas in the state.
The distribution of the medical and laboratory equipment, according to the Governor, shows that the present administration in Ondo state is on course to improving the health and wellbeing of all citizens of the state.
"One striking feature of some of the multi-million naira worth of equipment is that proper cognizance was taken of the infrastructural profile of our communities
"For instance, for the reason that a number of these communities where our primary health facilities are located do not have sufficient and regular power supply, Ondo state Government ensured that oxygen concentrators that were procured are those with in-built Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) that will ensure prolonged usage of the equipment to deliver oxygen to persons needing it, especially children with acute severe respiratory distress which has claimed many lives of many of our children of less than 5 years. "Akeredolu said.
