The Ogun State House of Assembly has urged the State Ministry of Health and Hospitals Management Board to contribute their quota in providing quantitative healthcare delivery to the people.
The Assembly also called for strengthening internal systems to improve financial performance and service impact throughout the state.
Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Wahab Haruna, gave the charge during the commencement of the 2025 mid-year budget performance appraisal at the Assembly Complex, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta.
Haruna commended the ministry’s efforts to provide the public with high-quality healthcare and encouraged its leadership to enhance performance by emphasising service excellence and the careful use of public funds in line with the country’s developmental goals.
Also speaking, the Minority Leader, Lukman Adeleye, commended the ministry for taking advantage of the projects under ‘Impact Office’ to boost healthcare infrastructure in the state, soliciting more funding for the ministry to do more in rendering quality healthcare delivery to the people.
Earlier, while presenting the ministry’s mid-year financial performance report, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, stated that the state government, in partnership with the World Bank, had upgraded 75 primary healthcare centres across the state to enhance primary care service delivery.
She added that the government had also strengthened human capital in the health sector through the recent employment of 472 community health extension workers for the primary health centres in the state, while a further 415 personnel were employed into the State Hospitals Management Board to boost service delivery.
The commissioner noted that the ministry generated a total of N99 million, representing 43.64 per cent of the ministry’s annual revenue target, which was derived from tuition and hostel fees at the School of Nursing, as well as hospital and laboratory renewal fees.
Coker stated that the ministry recorded a recurrent expenditure performance of 32.43 per cent within the first six months and requested additional funding for the capital projects of the ministry.
She further highlighted other achievements during the period under review, including the regular supply of essential drugs, maintenance of state ambulances for emergency response, commemoration of key global health observance days, and facilitation of ICT training to enhance staff capacity and operational efficiency
On her part, the Permanent Secretary, State Hospitals Management Board, Dr Yinka Elemide, noted that the Board returned a 41.83 per cent recurrent achievement, while its revenue for the period under review stood at 54.9 per cent.
Other agencies whose budget performances were appraised by the state lawmakers included the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, the State Agency for the Control of AIDS, as well as the state and general hospitals under the State Hospitals Management Board.
