NMA commends Kwara govt on health care provision.

Medical doctors in Kwara State, under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), have commended the intervention of the state government in the area of health care delivery, especially in the five years of the present administration.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday as part of activities marking the 2023 Physician's Week, the state chairman of the NMA, Dr Ola Ahmed, hailed the present administration of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq for rehabilitation of hospitals, payment of counterpart funding on health interventions, provision of funds for insecticide-treated nets (ITN), and drugs to eliminate malaria, among others.

'The present administration has done a lot in the area of rehabilitation of hospitals, primary health care, and secondary health facilities, as well as the payment of counterpart funding from external health funds such as FG and international bodies, which has led to improvements in health care delivery.

'Also, it has provided malaria funding for the distribution of insecticide-treated nets and put in place a health insurance scheme where many indigent people in the state have been enrolled.

It has also normalised doctors' salaries and extended them to other healthcare workers like laboratory scientists, nurses, pharmacists, etc.

The Governor's approval for the recruitment of more staff is also laudable; though approval was hailed, we're still yet to get it implemented, especially for doctors', he said.

Ahmed, who observed the increased rate of insecurity in some parts of the country, said that the situation was becoming unbearable.

He said that the development had negatively...