Osun State Government orders LAUTECH Teaching Hospital to give free Oxygene

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has ordered the management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, LAUTECH, to provide oxygen free of charge to all patients on emergency in hospital. He also said that oxygen must be made available in the hospital 24 hours.
Aregbesola gave the order yesterday in Osogbo, the state capital at the inauguration of oxygen gas production building and equipment; endoscopy/ pharmacy/amenity building; and drug production facility at the hospital.
The governor, who was at the launch with his Oyo State counterpart, Abiola Ajimobi, reiterated his administration’s commitment to providing quality healthcare delivery to the people.
Aregbesola, who was conferred with the “Ambassador, Democrat and Excellence Award,” by the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, of LAUTECH, pointed out that the projects were provided to enhance the operations of the hospital in its mission of saving lives and providing quality medical manpower training.
The governor said the hospital was being gradually upgraded to prevent avoidable deaths as a result of sickness and diseases, which hospitals could have handled if the requisite infrastructure had been in place.
He said: “Our goal is to greatly enhance the capacity of the hospital to train high quality medical manpower to the level that can be obtained anywhere and save lives, even from conditions that seem impossible.
“I am sure that you must have known now that the Western world and their scientists are more concerned with diseases that are prevalent in their own societies. “We only benefit where there is confluence of interest.
The onus is therefore on us to make breakthroughs in diseases that are common to our people. It goes without saying that it is you that we are counting on to do this.”
Aregbesola averred that the quality of the healthcare available to a people would determine the quantum of wealth they could produce. He said that was the reason why his government had made the provision of quality healthcare to the people a priority.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Olufemi Fadiora, commended Osun and Oyo states for their commitment to the growth and development of the hospital.
Fadiora, who observed that the challenge of equipping and running the hospital was huge, noted that if the institution was adequately equipped, the inconveniences and psychological torture of seeking treatment abroad would be reduced.
Also, the NASU Chairman, Comrade S. O. Ibitoye, commended Aregbesola and Ajimobi for rescuing the hospital from total collapse arising from needless muscle-flexing over its ownership by the past administration in Oyo State. Ibitoye also gave Aregbesola’s administration the thumbs-up for the amicable resolution of the impasse as well as the prompt payment of the institution’s staff salaries.
Meanwhile, Aregbesola will today launch the much-expected Osun School Uniform, O’Uniform, at Ede. The inauguration, which takes place at the NYSC Orientation Camp, Ede, marks the beginning of the new uniform scheme in the state.
In a statement issued by the Director of Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, the governor is expected to launch the uniforms as part of the unprecedented move to turn around public education in the state.
In 2012, the administration introduced the free school uniforms for all students in public primary and secondary schools across the state. The uniforms, which are in different designs for elementary, junior and high model schools, would be spread across all schools in the state. Besides, about 3,000 local tailors were engaged to sew the uniforms.