DEVCOMS led a team of Journalist on an investigative trip to Irede community, Abule Osun in Lagos State where it was discovered that residents of Irede community are in quandry.

They have continually agonised over the inaccessibility and unavailability of qualitative healthcare services in their area. The riverine communities inhabited by over 10,000 people have witnessed recurrent loss of lives, notably among pregnant women and the elderly people in the communities as a result of lack of reliable health services.

The riverine communities inhabited by over 10,000 people have witnessed recurrent loss of lives, notably among pregnant women and the elderly people in the communities as a result of lack of reliable health services. Good Health Weekly gathered that back in the 1970s, during the Lateef Jakande administration, a dispensary was built along the boundary of the two communities to service the inhabitants, but was later pulled down by the authorities to give way to the proposed Primary Healthcare Centre, PHC, in 2012 during the tenure of Ibrahim Tunde Sanusi administration as the Chairman of Oriade LCDA.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/abandoned-phc-neglected-lagos-commun...