Abiodun said his administration was determined to provide adequate healthcare services to the people, adding that the health workers would be appropriately accommodated in the new minimum wage.
Governor Dapo Abiodun, who disclosed this at the weekend during a meeting with representatives of the health workers, at his office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, said the life policy would have taken off immediately but would have to wait for the Federal Government, which is also putting in place a similar programme.
While enumerating efforts of his administration to reform the sector, he said prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, rehabilitation of hospitals had begun with 236 primary health care centres across the state.He appealed to health officials not to allow matters to degenerate, but to keep communication open with government.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, described the workers as people with passion, who are ready to give their all. The representative of the health workers, Dr. Femi Odubote, extolled the state government for addressing their concerns, as all contending issues were adequately trashed out. This is in addition to three new cases reportedly recorded at the facility barely a week after a pregnant woman died of the pandemic at the hospital. The new cases, The Guardian learnt were possibly contacts of the two cases recorded last week at the hospital.
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