Speaking before he presented the equipment to the Chief Medical Director (CMD) UCH, Professor Jesse Otegbayo, President of Rotary Club of Ibadan-Jericho Metro, Mr Seyi Alaba, said the gesture was to cater for SCBU department of the college having visited the place and knew their needs.
“In Rotary, we have seven areas of focus when we implement projects and one of them is maternal and child health. This is one area the Rotary Club of Ibadan-Jericho Metro focuses our attention on, we try to look at how we can assist and play our own roles to improve the health of the mother and the child.
“So, we key into this and we conducted a kind of survey to look into what and what the hospital needs and that was why earlier this year, we made some donations to the Special Care Unit and this is another kind gesture from our Club, where we are donating incubators and phototherapy machines to the infants.
“We pick UCH because they handle so many cases even when there are severe cases from private hospitals, they still bring them to UCH. So, the UCH facilities need to be improved on and that is why we are here today. When we started, we started with Baby Cut but I’m so happy today that we were able to do this today. I have talked to people coming after me and I know that our Club will continue to support UCH, especially the SCBU department,” Alaba said.
In his response, Professor Otegbayo, thanked the association for their gesture while charging other NGOs to emulate the Rotary Club of Ibadan-Jericho Metro.
“Healthcare is everybody’s business because at one time or the other one will be sick and need help and sometimes at that time, you may not even be able to help yourself, so we need people who can help us.
“The Federal Government is doing a lot and doing so much to ensure that our health system continues to experience good goals. However, there is no country in the world where government alone can do it, therefore we need kind-hearted individuals, we need philanthropic individuals as Rotary Club of Ibadan-Jericho Metro has done in donating incubators to us, we need very like-minded to partner with us, to encourage our health workers in order to be able to do their job appropriately and that will extend to the populace, so I will encourage anyone, high networking individuals, companies and religious houses in joining us to emulate Rotary Club of Ibadan-Jericho Metro has done in order to help us perform better,” Otegbayo said.
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