A former lawmaker, Senator Kola Ogunwale, has called on governments at all levels to consider increasing budgetary provisions for the health sector.
He noted that allocating more funds to the health sector will help to curb avoidable deaths.
Ogunwale, who was in the Senate between 2003 and 2007, spoke in Osogbo on Saturday at the maiden edition of Deacon Noah Oderinu Memorial Colloquium.
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He also enjoined citizens to engage the services of only licensed health practitioners to avoid death by error and noted that every unqualified personnel should also be held accountable for the death of any of their patients.
A statement personally signed by the former lawmaker further read, “It is instructive to call on government at all levels, to consider greater budgetary spending on the health sector, so that medical conditions of our people can be adequately managed in order that people can live up to their destined time in life.
“I wish to also make an appeal that citizens should engage the services of only licensed health practitioners so that we can avoid death errors and for personnel to be held accountable for their roles in health management.”
He also commended the state governor, Ademola Adeleke for his resolve to enrol pensioners and other senior citizens under the State Health Insurance Scheme.
According to him, the governor’s gesture would serve as an impetus to the active workers to put in their best, since they would trust the government for a good post-retirement medical plan awaiting them in retirement, besides their regular pension payments.
