The Lagos State Government has called for more support from individuals, philanthropists, private, and Non-Governmental Organisations to ensure quality healthcare delivery for less-privileged and indigent people in Alimosho and its environs.
Commissioner 1, Lagos State Health Service Commission, Dr Olumuyiwa Solanke, made this call, according to a statement on Thursday, during the Donors’ Appreciation and Award Presentation Day organised by Alimosho General Hospital in Alimosho.
He said, “The task of quality healthcare delivery requires that individuals, NGOs, and corporate organisations join hands with the government to meet the health demands of citizens. Donors who have yielded the call to support the government’s health initiatives are individuals who have answered divine calls by rending help to humanity and indigent persons.
“There is a need for more partnership from well-meaning Lagosians to advance the medical sector because it is more profitable to choose the path of saving lives through philanthropy as against spending on frivolities and human recognitions.”
The hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Dr Ayodapo Soyinka, disclosed that the hospital has received donations of medical equipment and others from 120 philanthropists.
“The hospital has records of 120 donors in the last one year who have intervened in different areas of medical needs like provision of medical equipment, ambulances, payment of medical bills of indigent patients, showing care for abandoned victims and in several other areas.
“The hospital has also received a donation of several millions of naira between January to July this year as medical support from different philanthropists in addition to other support in form of medical equipment and kits,” he stated.
