Healthcare Group partners Oyo to raise N50b medical fund

Healthcare Group, a leading development and consultancy firm in the country,  has partnered with the Oyo state government to raise N50 billion medical fund for the renovation of health facilities across the state.

Under the partnership agreement, Healthcare will work with the state government in creating ideas on possible ways to raise the medical fund that would be spent on the renovation of 57 general hospitals and 600 health care centres in all the local government areas of the state.

In a press release made available to BusinessDay, Bola Olaosebikan, founder and chief executive, Healthcare Group said “we are very delighted to partner with Oyo State Government that is genuinely committed to transform health care delivery in the state. So we are most delighted to work with the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi that has given the highest priority to transformation of health sector in the history of Oyo State.”

“We shall be working with Oyo state government on the N50 billion healthcare endowment funds for Oyo state and we are very happy to be working with a focused administration, officials of government, national and international partners to deliver this innovation.

“This strategic initiative will lay a new financial foundation for health care infrastructural transformation in Oyo state, the pacesetter state in Nigeria, as well as a new pace for socio-economic development by the Ajimobi’s administration in Oyo State,” Olaosebikan said.

Oyo plans to set up the first iconic cardio-vascular centre in Ibadan from the endowment fund which will be launched on August 3rd 2017.

 

Josephine Okojie