In a bid to ensure that the improvement of healthcare service in Oyo state, the state government has announced that it will recruit 232 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and medical laboratory scientists.
Governor Seyi Makinde disclosed this in Ibadan on Thursday at the special plenary to mark one year of the 10th Oyo Assembly.
The Governor said “We are in the process of recruiting 232 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and medical laboratory scientists and the exit replacement of health workers who left the service from 2021 till date. This ensures that our public healthcare service does not continue to be incapacitated by a lack of personnel”.
In his address at the event, he stated that his administration have completed the upgrade of General Hospital Aremo, Ibadan and equipped 264 primary healthcare centres, including the ones upgraded under Omituntun 1.0.
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According to him, the Solarised Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Plant commissioned over a week ago at Jericho Specialist Hospital and State Hospital will reduce morbidity and mortality due to hypoxaemia in Oyo State by addressing the key barriers which limit access to high-quality diagnostics and medical oxygen delivery systems in health facilities.
