Opinion: Dear John, EKSUTH Actually Made A Valiant Effort, and Wasn’t At Fault, By ‘Kayode Fayemi
As a health worker yourself, I believe you have first hand experience of the personal risk your colleagues face daily in a pandemic situation, hence the need to be extra cautious when admitting a new patient with symptoms similar to COVID-19. This may account for the perceived delays, though still within standard stipulated response timing in an ER.
That is why many state governments have tried to procure ambulances for their healthcare centres. In Ekiti State, all our secondary and tertiary healthcare centres have at least one functional ambulance for patient emergencies. While this may be inadequate, until we are able to adequately fund healthcare, probably through a health insurance scheme, such interventions would remain our only way to mitigate the circumstances.
On our part in Ekiti State, in spite of our excruciating financial challenges, my administration has always prioritised the safety, protection and well being of our citizens. EKSUTH alone has a recurrent grant of N2.6 billion in the 2020 budget and that is separate from the healthcare capital budget of almost N3 billion. Health and human services sector is 12 per cent of this year’s budget, while we are targeting an increase to at least 18 per cent of the total budget in subsequent years.
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