General News | 5 February 2012 Last updated at 11:00 CET
Ogun Inaugurates Artificial Limbs Service
By thewillnigeria.com
ABEOKUTA, February 05, (THEWILL) - The healthcare delivery programme of the Ogun State government yesterday received a boost as Rotary Club International District 9110 handed over a total of 500 artificial limbs to the state. The limbs were estimated to have cost US $70,000.
The occasion also witnessed the presentation of six graduate trainees who are expected to take over the manufacturing of the artificial limbs from their Ugandan Trainee, a Senior Orthopist Prothetist, Mr. Max Acamun for sustainability of the scheme.
The factory which was put in place by Rotary Club was part of the collaboratives of the Ibikunle Amosun led-government.
Speaking at the inauguration of the artificial limb service, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka promised the Rotary club that the project would be sustained to keep the memory of the club’s humanitarian service alive.
Dr. Soyinka assured the donor that the State government would ensure a grand plan to expand the project towards meeting the aspirations of amputees who hitherto were travelling outside the country before being able to procure one.
In her welcome address, the permanent secretary, Hospitals management board, Dr. Oyin Sodipe, expressed delight in rotary club International partnership with the state government over the project disclosing that the state government had identified 50 people who are in need of the artificial limb at the state hospital in Abeokuta.
In his goodwill message, the District governor 9110, Rotarian Kennedy Ejakpome urged the state government to make the artificial limb free of charge to the amputees, stressing that doing so would encourage many who are in need to show up thereby adding to the popularity and acceptability of the present administration in the State.
One of the beneficiaries of the 500 artificial limbs included a 12-year-old primary school girl, Afuwape Abisoye who lost her right leg to motor accident three years ago.
The occasion also witnessed the presentation of six graduate trainees who are expected to take over the manufacturing of the artificial limbs from their Ugandan Trainee, a Senior Orthopist Prothetist, Mr. Max Acamun for sustainability of the scheme.
The factory which was put in place by Rotary Club was part of the collaboratives of the Ibikunle Amosun led-government.
Speaking at the inauguration of the artificial limb service, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka promised the Rotary club that the project would be sustained to keep the memory of the club’s humanitarian service alive.
Dr. Soyinka assured the donor that the State government would ensure a grand plan to expand the project towards meeting the aspirations of amputees who hitherto were travelling outside the country before being able to procure one.
In her welcome address, the permanent secretary, Hospitals management board, Dr. Oyin Sodipe, expressed delight in rotary club International partnership with the state government over the project disclosing that the state government had identified 50 people who are in need of the artificial limb at the state hospital in Abeokuta.
In his goodwill message, the District governor 9110, Rotarian Kennedy Ejakpome urged the state government to make the artificial limb free of charge to the amputees, stressing that doing so would encourage many who are in need to show up thereby adding to the popularity and acceptability of the present administration in the State.
One of the beneficiaries of the 500 artificial limbs included a 12-year-old primary school girl, Afuwape Abisoye who lost her right leg to motor accident three years ago.
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