PHC Goes Moribund As Health Personnel Abandon Building
RESIDENTS of Adedapo Estate, Oke Sapo, Ido-Osun area of Egbedore local government of Osun State, have alerted the State government to the moribund Primary Health centre in the community.
The health centre, according to the residents, has dilapidated as a result of lack of maintenance.
OSUN DEFENDER visited the health centre and observed that it is one of the Millennium Development Goals projects executed in 2011.
The 10-bed space hospital which was equipped with modern equipment is now a shadow of its former self because of lack of maintenance.
Findings revealed that medical personnel who were working in the health centre had ceased from going there for safety reasons.
Apart from the bushy environment, the PHC’s building was near collapse with cracking walls and a roof in a state of disrepair.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the healthcare centre became nonfunctional around April this year when the staff decided not to resume there as a result of its poor condition.
Ever since, the gate of the PHC has remained closed.
A resident of the area, Abiodun Adeleke, told OSUN DEFEBDER that the PHC was serving Halleluyah, Woru, Abiola Oloke and other communities before it was no longer functioning.
According to Adeleke, residents of the communities who could not afford private hospital, have to go to a maternity at Rinsayo to seek medical service.
Adeleke said: “This PHC was serving people from Halleluyah, Oke Sapo, Woru, Abiola Oloke and other communities around this place. It is a big health centre with equipment. But, because of lack of maintenance, the health centre is no longer functioning. Our people are going to the maternity at Rinsayo to seek medical service.
“We used to have qualified doctors and nurses that attend to people here in the past. But because the building is not maintained, those people have not been coming to work again. It is a major concern to us.
“The wall of the building has craved; the roof has caved in, the entire building needs total renovation. The state and local government should come to our rescue.”
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