Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has disclosed that his administration will soon begin the disbursement of grants to the 236 Primary Health (PHCs) across the state, towards meeting the requirements of World Health Organisation (WHO).

Governor Abiodun stated this, when he received the executive members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), who were in the state for their 44th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference, revealing that the state had received grants and facilities from multilateral organisations.

He noted that about 100 PHCs had been renovated and equipped with solar energy, digital communication equipment and digital record-keeping systems, for maintaining patient records, stating that the government would sustain its investment in primary, secondary and tertiary health care facilities, as well as human capital development of doctors.

He stated further that the present administration had continually paid hazard allowances of doctors in the state, while it had approved the payment of accouterments and clinical duty allowances, as well as begun the implementation of health insurance scheme for the organised private sector and Civil Service.

Abiodun urged members of the association to continue to meet, share knowledge, experiences and come up with ways to improve the health sector, assuring that government would consider their resolutions at the end of the conference.

Earlier in his remarks, the outgoing National President of NARD, Dr. Dele Abdulahi, while appreciating Governor Abiodun for the giant strides in the health sector, enjoined him to help the association curb inter-state migration of doctors in Nigeria, which remains one of the challenges confronting it.

"But of peculiar importance is not just the migration outside the country but inter-state migration. It is one of the major problems that we have been noticing, whereby we have the influx to other states”, he said.