Speaker donates consumables, furniture to Kwara cottage hospital

In a bid to complement the state government efforts on the provision of qualitative healthcare delivery services, Ali Ahmad, the speaker of Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday inaugurated Isale-Asa Cottage Hospital ‎with the provision of required facilities, furniture and consumables.

 

Inaugurating the hospital which falls within Speaker’s Constituency –  Ilorin South Constituency, Ahmad declared that the equipments and other necessary facilities as well as furnitures were undertaken to adequately cater for people’s healthcare and community’s yearning.
Ahmad said that any serious government must at all times be determined to prioritise the people’s welfare vis-a-vis provision of sound healthcare services as part of measures to fight poverty and untimely deaths that are common in the country.
He said, “Equipping the hospital is an easy decision because it provides greater opportunity to further contribute towards the development of my constituency.”
The Speaker, however expressed his belief that the health facilities would totally eradicate ‎the community’s sufferings in terms of medical attention, especially as regards having access to quality healthcare services.
Earlier in his address, the President of Isale Asa Development Association, Raji Tunde who appreciated the donor,‎ stressed that the community would forever cherish the good gesture and make good use of the facilities.
Tunde however called on the state government through the Ministry of Health not to hesitate to provide adequate personnel to man the facility for the benefit‎ of the people.
‎Also speaking, a political stakeholder in Ilorin South, Saka Ayinde Kutijifu commended the Speaker and admonished other political office holders in the area to emulate his good gestures.
Kutijifu emphasised that the donor had always prioritise the people’s well-being, stating that the gesture did not come to them as a surprise due to his antecedents since venturing into politics.

 

SIKIRAT SHEHU