The Oyo State Government has announced the commencement of the process of revising the minimum health service package available to patients in primary healthcare centres across the state, as disclosed on Saturday.
Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, the Commissioner for Health, disclosed this during a review meeting in Oyo town, as conveyed in a statement by Dotun Oyelade, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, in Ibadan, the state’s capital.
According to the statement, Ajetunmobi stressed the importance of standardising the minimum service package.
She explained that the central purpose of convening the review meeting was to address the basic health needs of the entire state’s populace. She added that this initiative constituted a high-priority set of interventions that should be readily available in primary healthcare centres on a daily basis, with minimal or no charges.
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The commissioner highlighted that Governor Seyi Makinde’s leadership, which commenced in 2019, had steadfastly shown dedication to the healthcare sector. She stressed that the governor’s dedication to the sector was directed at elevating the health metrics and the general health status of the state’s population.
She added, ‘This meeting is designed to strengthen health service delivery in our state at the PHC level. The minimum health service package, according to the Federal Government policy, is described as a priority set of interventions which should be provided in PHC centres daily and at little or no cost to clients through government financing mechanisms.’
‘MSP is basically deployed to meet the needs of the entire population in the state where resources are limited by aggregating services together. The MSP minimises costs, for both the services and patients to receive the services.’
‘The present administration in the state is also making frantic efforts to ensure that government health facilities are adequately equipped so that the people of the state can enjoy appropriate and qualitative health care.’
The Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Board, Muideen Olatunji, earlier disclosed that the government had concluded the renovation of 210 primary healthcare facilities among the 351 facilities under the board’s jurisdiction.