Kwara screens 4000 females civil servants, remodels 50 primary health care

The Kwara State government says it has screened about 4000 female civil servants in the state to ensure their status and prevent breast and cervical cancer and ensure health society among kwarans.

Abdulfatah Ahmed, the state governor who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Ilorin the state also revealed that about 50 primarily health care institutions were remulded largely to serve the rural environment.

“Because we are aware that in a bid to drive health care, you need to be conscious of availability and accessibility. That was why we set- up programmes to ensure that drugs are made available at all our health institutions through a well structured drugs revolving scheme.

“Under the scheme, we have seen how availability inclusion of getting right infrastructure in place and that led us to remuld 5 general hospitals including the one of Ilorin, Offa, Share, Omu-Aran and of course Kiaima. These are critical areas that are supposed to serve primary and secondary health care facilities.”

He added that, “We also improved our accessibility through expansion of incorporating health insurance which covers about four to five local governments in three senatorial districts in the state.

“Through the office of first lady, under her LEAH, we were able to partner and ensure that over four thousand female civil servants were made to under go screening which will clearly define their status and give them the latitude to next step where necessary.”

According to him, one of the biggest challenges health care service is faced with today in Nigeria and other parts of the world is non communicable diseases like cancer, tumor and others.

“These diseases unfortunately affect people without knowledge until it gets bad, that was why it becomes imperative that we create sensitization in areas of making information available through people going for check-ups and ensuring their status before it really get bad.,” he said

Speaking further, Ahmed explained that, ” We are now fully giving in to comprehensive state wide health insurance scheme. The law to drive the health insurance scheme has been passed, the structure has also been put in place that fully upscale the health insurance scheme and will make health services available to average persons that live in rural environment with as low as N1000 to N2000 to have all year round health care service delivery.
SIKIRAT SHEHU, Ilorin