The Ogun State government, in conjunction with Pathfinder International, has inaugurated a 38-man committee on State Strategic Health Development Plan (SSHDP). The move was aimed at reducing maternal, child mortality rate.
 
While inaugurating the committee at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the state capital, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye urged members of the committee to be committed in the discharge of their responsibilities.
 
He added that the committee has five years to finish the task before them, even as he enjoined them to make the state proud in terms of health care delivery as it was the second cardinal programme of Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration.
 
Ipaye said the committee would work assiduously in the next five years in order to fulfill the expectation of the Federal Ministry of Health to have the bottom-top approach to the National Strategic Plan on Health, adding that whatever development adopted in the state would be sent to the Federal Government as part of national health plans.
 
“We are modifying the expectation of Federal Government plan in such a way that will have positive impact on our people, not only to fulfil the Federal Government’s template but to also build around our three-tier programmes of primary, secondary and tertiary health services,” Ipaye said.
 
He said it was imperative to manage the health care of the people, especially those in the rural communities and to reflect the approach of financing the Community-based Health Insurance Scheme (CBHIS), Araya that permits indigent people to key into the five-year programme.
 
The commissioner further said the programme would focus on health care of the people with malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal care, immunisation and others.
 
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