Makinde Oluseyi Abiodun

Health section

Our strategy for Omituntun 2.0 is consolidate our achievements in the healthcare sector, Complete the ongoing facility-renovation interventions and add new facilities to be upgraded, Improve healthcare workers’ skill sets to meet modern healthcare needs, Provide medical equipment.

We will ensure that renovation works are completed, and infrastructure development initiated especially in the outstanding 93 PHCs. We will accomplish this through funding and efficient supervision in the first two years of being re-elected.

We will renovate an additional 51 PHCs to bring the number of PHCs renovated to 351, one in each ward in Oyo State, before the end of our tenure.

We will provide medical equipment requirements in the renovated PHCs over the next four years.

We will ensure adequate medical personnel in the rehabilitated/ renovated Primary Healthcare Centres over the next four years.

We will procure 50 more ambulances to improve access to emergency services within the four years of our tenure.

We will upgrade six secondary healthcare facilities in Oyo State: Ring Road State Hospital, Adeoyo; General Hospital Eruwa; General Hospital Igbeti; General Hospital Igbo-Ora; General Hospital Iseyin; and General Hospital Oyo to reposition them for better service delivery.

We will work to reduce the overall mortality rate from Non-Communicable Diseases by more than 5%.

We will explore ways of increasing revenue generation in the sector through aggressively marketing the Oyo State Health Insurance scheme and increasing enrollees by 40%, commercialising ambulance service, drug revolving funds, and working with the private sector to optimise the use of facilities such as the dialysis centre and High Dependency Units (HDUs).

We will work to reduce maternal mortality and neonatal mortality by 5% through sensitisation, increasing antenatal care delivery and upskilling health workers.

In the first year of being re-elected, we will expand the 615 toll-free Citizens’ Enquiry Number to cover medical emergencies.

To combat the brain drain challenge, we will recruit additional health personnel to ensure adequate and quality healthcare delivery within the first two years of being re-elected.

We will build the Oyo State Electronic Health Records System (EHRS) and transfer at least 25% of patients within the Oyo State Health Insurance Scheme to this database within three years of being re-elected.

Questions to ask Makinde Oluseyi Abiodun

1. You state that renovation works, including the outstanding 93 PHCs, will be completed in the first two years. What are the specific start and completion dates and milestones you will publish for these 93 facilities?
2. You plan to renovate an additional 51 PHCs to bring the total renovated to 351, one per ward. How many wards are officially recognized in Oyo State, and how many PHCs have already been renovated to date?
3. What is the total budget required for completing the 93 PHC renovations, upgrading the additional 51 PHCs, procuring 50 ambulances, and equipping PHCs, and what are the specific funding sources?
4. Which agency or unit will be responsible for supervising the PHC renovations and upgrades, and how will progress, contracts awarded, and expenditures be reported publicly?
5. For the six secondary hospitals slated for upgrade, what exact service improvements (e.g., diagnostics, theatre capacity, specialist clinics) are planned at each facility?
6. You aim to reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases by more than 5%. What is the baseline rate, the exact target (e.g., 5% relative or absolute reduction), the timeframe, and the indicator definition you will use?
7. You aim to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by 5%. What are the current MMR and NMR baselines for Oyo State, the target values, and the timeframe for achieving them?