Pregnant Women Denounce Termite-Infested Health Centre, knock Ogun
Pregnant women and residents of the Agada community in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State have decried the state of the health centre in the community.
The women lamented the deplorable condition of the health centre which has made access to good health care services almost impossible for them.
They complained bitterly that many pregnant women have resorted to trado-medical treatment due to the non-availability of health workers and facilities.
According to RovingNaija checks, the health centre is in a state of disrepair with near collapse building, broken windows, rusty and termite-infested iron beds, unkempt labour room and overgrown lawns.
The only nurse on duty, who did not mention her name for security reasons, stated that pregnant women still trooped in and out of the hospital despite its poor condition. She said that about five pregnant women delivered babies at the facility in October, while the residents lamented that the hospital had become a death-trap for patients.
Some pregnant women, who spoke to newsmen stated that they went through pain while accessing health care in the community.
A pregnant woman, Ewaade Jamiu, said she resorted to other means of getting health care after she suffered complications at the health centre during her last birth as the hospital did not have the facilities to take care of sick children or pregnant women.
“That hospital has become a nightmare for us because of its poor condition. I can never go there again because of what I went through the last time. I had complications and I almost lost the child.
“You can imagine; if you rushed pregnant women there at midnight, there will not be anybody to attend to them. They don’t have enough health workers and this hospital needs to be rehabilitated.”
A medical doctor, Tunde Adewale, who saw pictures of the health centre, said the facility was unhygienic for pregnant women.
“With this kind of environment, there can be serious complications during labour and this can also affect the child. You can imagine taking a newborn out in an environment that is full of mosquitoes, surrounded by bushes and not fumigated.
“Government needs to either close this place or rehabilitate it and provide the needed facilities for it to operate effectively.”
When the Commissioner for Health in Ogun State, Tomi Coker was contacted, she said the government was renovating and equipping 235 primary health centres in the state in phases.
“The government is committed to renovating and equipping 236 primary healthcare centres, one per ward in the 20 LGA. We are doing them in phases, hence some have yet to be done. We have recruited over 50 midwives and 40 doctors in the last six months,” she said.
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