The Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA), has called on stakeholders in community development to support its drive at giving basic healthcare services to the people in communities across the state.
Chairman of the agency, Tokunbo Adeaga, said this while hosting representatives of communities where OYCSDA had constructed community health centres in Ibadan.
The meeting which had in attendance, the General Manager of OYCSDA, Mr. Salawu Jelili, and the management team, representative of Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board, Dr. O. R Omotajo, traditional rulers from the communities and technical experts, focused on ways by which the health facilities will be staffed for optimal usage.
Adeaga said the shortage of health workers in Oyo State and Nigeria as a whole, necessitated alternative ways by which staffing of the community health centres could be achieved.
Adeaga, in a release signed by the OYCSDA’s Project Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Alhazan Abiodun Rilwan, called on the communities to support the initiative by getting retired medical personnel from the areas to work in the facilities and collect some incentives from dedicated purse of the communities.
“This is the only way to beat the crisis of lack of dearth of health workers, we must engage our uncles and aunts that are already retired to provide community service in this form and get paid,” Adeaga said.
Representative of the state Primary Healthcare Board, Dr. O. R. Omotajo, said the personnel sought to man the health facilities should be qualified and experienced, so as to avoid creating medical crisis in the communities.
The community representatives appreciated the state government and OYCSDA for providing succour in terms of health facilities in their domains, as requested by the communities.
They promised to look for qualified health workers and support staff members in order to make the facilities functional.
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