In furtherance to commitment to adequate health care services, the Ekiti State government has invested more in its medical facilities.

To this end, the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital internal road network was rehabilitated while a new oxygen plant, opthalmological centre and Dentistry were built.

At the inauguration of the facilities at the Hospital premises in Ado Ekiti, the wife of the State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi appealed to residents not to abandon them but make judicious use of the infrastructure for their health benefit.

“This hospital is not the same as we have met it, the present government cannot afford to toy with the health of the citizens because if people are not healthy they cannot go to farms, offices, schools and other places, She said.

Earlier, the State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani emphasized that the development was to show how critical and significant the health needs of people to government and also urged people to take advantage of it.

The Chief Medical Director of the Teaching Hospital, Professor Kayode Olabanji noted that the new facilities would contribute in no small measure to accreditation of some programmes in the university teaching hospital, place staff and patients in a more conducive environment for better output.

He maintained that all the projects inaugurated at the Hospital premises would add to improved health service delivery and in turn boost the internally Generated Revenue of the State.

Professor Olabanji encouraged the government never to relent in empowering the Teaching Hospital which serves as an apical referral centre for all hospitals in the state so as to be able to fulfil the role of salvaging the lives of the teeming population beyond the capacity of primary and secondary level care facilities.

The Chief Medical Director also advised all adults to seek services at the dental centre at least twice a year.

Busuyi Ogidiolu