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Ondo Govt. Recounts 2014 Health Sector Achievements

The Ondo State Government has treated over 2,300 patients and performed over 1,000 surgeries at the Trauma and Surgical Centre located in Ondo town. Briefing … Continue reading Ondo Govt. Recounts 2014 Health Sector Achievements


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OndoThe Ondo State Government has treated over 2,300 patients and performed over 1,000 surgeries at the Trauma and Surgical Centre located in Ondo town.

Briefing journalists in his office in Akure, the state capital, on some of the achievements of government in the health sector during the outgoing year, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, revealed that surgeries such as spinal, brain and other complex surgeries had been done successfully at the surgical centre.

Adeyanju also told journalists that the experts from the National Post Graduate College of Medicine were in the centre earlier in the year to conduct accreditation exercise and in January 2015, the Trauma and Surgical Centre would commence residency training.

Apart from that, the Health Commissioner also said that about 200 lives that would have been lost in road crashes have been saved by the intervention of the Emergency Medical Services in the last three months.