Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina
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People are underutilising PHCs — Adeshina
September 18, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke
The
Special Adviser on Health to Governor Babatunde Fashola, Dr. Yewande
Adeshina, has expressed concern over the way people neglect the use of
primary health centres.
Adeshina who said this at a briefing on
Friday, also urged Lagosians to get referrals from a primary health
centre before proceeding to any general hospital in the state.
She said, “It is when PHCs cannot handle a case that they refer the patient to secondary hospital such as the general hospital.
“General hospitals are not built for immunisation and other minor cases.”
According to her, the flagship centres
are established by the state government to ensure quality delivery of
services in the PHCs.
She also explained that the state
government had established and equipped the centres in order to reduce
the population of patients who consult with doctors in the general
hospitals.
She added, “We had to come up with a
revitalisation process for the primary health care system, which led to
the development of a template that is now being used as a yardstick in
our PHCs.
“The revitalisation programme is
essentially to create a 24-hour power supply for health care service
within the 57 local governments and council development areas. We will
eventually have 57 comprehensive, 24-hour running PHCs. We named them
the flagship centres because of the excellence and improvement expected
of them.”
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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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