Oyo promises PHCs’ upgrade to 24 hours centres

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• Moves to sanitise poultry business
• Recommends standard operating procedure for farmers
• Surveyors urged to imbibe ethical standard, reforms to restore past glory

Oyo State Government has said that the Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the state will be specially upgraded to 24 hours service centres.

It also said that manpower gaps would be addressed soon.

This, according to it, was part of the resolutions met during a two-day retreat organised for health practitioners and stakeholders in the state.

The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, who disclosed this during the retreat, said the ministry had mapped out strategies to address various challenges affecting the health sector, mobilise resources, coordinate the activities of its partners and arrived at a plan that will align with the administration’s roadmap for healthcare development.

He said the retreat would ensure stakeholders in the health sector chart a way forward to improve the sector.

Earlier, Director of Planning, Research and Statistics in the ministry, Dr. Gbolahan Abbas, said the presence and collaboration of health families at the retreat was to promote health services in the state.

MEANWHILE, Oyo State Government has said that it is taking steps to sanitise poultry business.

It also said that it had recommended standard operating procedure for poultry processing farmers to avert Zoonotic diseases.

The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Olasunkanmi Olaleye, said the move was to sanitise poultry business in the state and ensure the safety of lives and property of the citizenry.

Olaleye, while presenting the SOP to the Chairman, Association of Poultry Processor, Oyo State Chapter and his members, yesterday, in his office, noted that 90 per cent of human diseases were contracted from animals (Zoonotic), hence the state government has embarked on an aggressive campaign.

He said that monitoring of the activities of slaughters and those in the animal business had also begun, stressing that consumption of healthy poultry products could not be negotiated.

IN another development, the Association of Private Practising Surveyors of Nigeria (APPSN) in Oyo State has been urged to imbibe discipline, ethical standard and developmental reforms to return the state to its place of pride as the former seat of the South-West Region of the country.

The call was made at a two-day retreat organised by APPSN Oyo State for its members at Iseyin.

The Guest Speaker, IretiOluwa Sotayo, said members of APPSN in Oyo State should take cognisance of major reform approaches that the Ogun State branch took up and worked for them.

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