Solina Health Limited, one of the non-state actors implementing the Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project in Oyo State, donated a 15-KVA solar inverter to the Central Medical Stores (CMS) of the Oyo State Ministry of Health at Adeoyo State Hospital, Ibadan, where they kept their commodities during the implementation of the ANRiN Project.
ANRiN is a government-led, World Bank-funded project aimed at providing quality and cost-effective nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, and children under five years of age.
The Project Coordinator of ANRiN in the state, Dr Khadijah Alarape, noted that Solina Health, having worked on the project for three years, deemed it fit to donate the inverter to the Oyo State government as an investment in the appropriate management of commodities at a time when power had become unstable.
The Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, appreciated Solina Health for the work they did on the project and for the donation of the inverters.
The commissioner stated that the inverter will help maintain the integrity of drugs by keeping them at appropriate temperatures, which will also afford other partners and donors wishing to donate drugs and other medical consumables to the state a good space for storage.
“I hope that the improvement we have recorded in the past three years through the ANRiN project will be sustained to achieve the ‘Omituntun 2.0′ vision of Governor Seyi Makinde on universal health coverage and system strengthening,” the commissioner added.
The Deputy Project Director of Solina Health in Oyo State, Dr Omowumi Okedare, stated that though the ANRiN project in the state has come to an end, Solina Health is open to further projects and partnerships with the state government as well as other ways they can strengthen the health system in the state.
The procurement and logistics manager of Solina Health, David Akinola, stated that the installed solar inverter is a digitalised system that has the capacity for remote operation and has the capability to power numerous energy-saving bulbs beyond the units of ACs they were designed for.
Akinola enjoined the CMS staff and the state to put the inverter to good use.
Alayande Olugbenga, the pharmacist in charge of the Central Medical Stores, while appreciating the donor and the government for the gesture, made a commitment to ensure judicious use of the solar inverter.
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