The Edo State Government is establishing e-clinics in Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) around the state as part of the government’s efforts to improve Edo residents’ access to inexpensive, efficient, and high-quality healthcare through telemedicine.
Speaking at the opening of an e-clinic at the PHC in Evbueghae Community, Orhionmwon local council, Dr. Mrs. Obarisiagbon Eloghosa, Executive Secretary, Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency (EPHCDA), said the government remains dedicated to ensuring high-quality healthcare services are made available in rural and hard-to-reach communities in the state.
The Executive Secretary, who was represented by Dr. E. lsoken, Director of Primary Health Care in Oredo Local Government, stated that the state government is actively pursuing decentralization of the health system in order to ensure the delivery of efficient and qualitative healthcare services to the people.
Eloghosa stated that the e-clinic will work in tandem with the state’s recently formed telemedicine hub to provide quality health care services to the citizens of Evbueghae Community.
Assuring the public that the health care facility would be sustainable, the health expert stated that the state would assure the availability of appropriate employees to administer the facility, emphasizing that workers would also be supervised for effective service delivery.
The General Manager, Edo Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), Engr Osazuwa Osarumen, who was represented at the event by the Operations Manager, Edo CSDA, Barr. Alonge Imodu, also spoke at the event, noting that the health center was identified during the CSDA community-driven development process with Evbueghae Community.
Osarumen noted that the CSDA is responsible for 97% of the funds, while the community is responsible for 3% of the funding for the project.
He urged the community’s elders to take full ownership of the initiative because they are the primary beneficiaries of the health center.