Date Published: 01/03/10

Ekiti Govt. to establish New School of Midwifery

Segun Oni

Ekiti State Government is to establish a School of Midwifery at Orun-Ekiti in Ise –Orun Local Government Area of the State the State Governor, Engr. Segun Oni has said.

Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Mr. Wale Ojo-Lanre said in a statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti that Governor Oni, who made this known at Ise-Ekiti while commissioning an hospital Building donated by Hon Titi Akindahunsi of the House of Representative said students of the school would make use of facilities of the General Hospitals at Ise and Emure for their practical work. 

Oni, who explained that the School of  Nursing and Midwifery, Ado-Ekiti could not presently meet the  admission requirement of the people of the State  said government would totally transform  general hospitals at Ise-and Emure  preparatory for the take-off the proposed School of  Midwifery  at Orun-Ekiti.

According to him, new structures would be constructed in the two General Hospitals while existing structures would be rehabilitated and additional infrastructures and personnel provided to ensure a smooth take-off of the new school.

While commending Hon Akindahunsi for taking the first step towards transforming the General Hospital Ise into a full-fledged secondary heath institution, the governor urged all political appointees in the State to emulate the gesture of the federal legislator by making positive contributions to their constituencies.

He disclosed that his administration had so far expended over N1.7 billion on provision of infrastructure and equipment in some 115 Primary Health Centres in state which his administration has designated as Blue Centres.

The Governor who  revealed that government was committing another N1billon to increase the number of Blue Centres  to 218 said  the aim of the initiative was to  make health care assessable and affordable to the citizenry   as well as to reduce Maternal and child mortality rate in the state to barest minimum.

Oni noted that  Health Care was gradually becoming a national benchmark in the State, adding that the State has been nationally acknowledge to have the best Drug Revolving System in the whole of Nigeria.