A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Bisi Yusuff has urged federal and state governments to provide quality primary healthcare centres for local governments in the country.
Yusuff made the plea at the grand finale of the seventh edition of free health mission by his foundation “Prince Hope Turns to Reality Foundation” Tuesday in Lagos.
He noted that the annual outreach was to mark his birthday and added that with the number of patients who besieged the six venues of the health mission in Alimosho council area, there was a lot to be done in the area of primary healthcare.
He said the gesture was geared towards creating a system that would continually support the most vulnerable in society and increase access to quality healthcare, better education, and improved social wellbeing.
“We have three levels of government, and the primary healthcare centres (PHCs) belong to the local governments, hence the need to empower the government at the grassroots to provide quality primary healthcare for the people.
“They should focus on this seriously. As a former local government chairman, I established many PHCs and today, three of them have turned to semi-general hospitals.
“This is what we are talking about. The government at the grassroots should spend part of their resources on this,” he said.
He said the mission has been able to attend to over 300 surgical operations, while the target is about 500, with 25 doctors and surgeons on the ground,” he said.
