• Laments loss of two sons to inadequate medical facilities
• Health expert tasks govt on measures against epidemics, others
The Ilawe-Ekiti community in Ekiti South West Local Council of Ekiti State has planned to launch a N500 million support fund for the takeoff of the teaching hospital annexe in the town.
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Chairman of the Ilawe Unity Day Organising Committee, Femi Bankole, who disclosed this, yesterday, while addressing journalists in Ilawe-Ekiti, said the community was in urgent need of a tertiary medical facility.

The Ilawe-Ekiti community said the implication of not having good medical facilities was that people died before they could be rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti or Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti. Bankole decried the recent painful incidents where two prominent indigenes of the community lost their lives due to lack of functional health facilities.

Meanwhile, a professor of Public Health Microbiology and Parasitology, Abdulazeez Abubakar, has called on the government at all levels to be prepared for more epidemics and pandemics in the near future.

Abubakar, while delivering the sixth inaugural lecture of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo State, titled “A world held hostage by microbes: Exploring the ways out of captivity,” advised that measures to tackle such health disasters should be put in place.
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