Soun Ghandi Olaoye presents multi-million naira equipment to Bowen Varsity Teaching Hospital
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The promise of the Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Afolabi Ghandi Olaoye, Orumogege III, to develop Ogbomosoland has started materialising as the monarch presented medical equipment worth millions of naira to Bowen University Teaching Hospital (BUTH) in Ogbomoso, Oyo state.
The items included delivery couch, trays and equipment, mobile folding stretcher, oxygen cylinder with regulator, sunction machine, incubator, microscope (olympus), table top centrifuge, spectrophotometer, photo electric clorimetre, drum for sterile materials, Sadiometre, Xtray viewing machine, pediratic sadometere and others.
Oba Olaoye who presented the equipment on behalf of the Ogbomoso First Community Initiatives (O’ First Group) tasked the management of the teaching hopsital on specialisation.
While presenting the equient, Oba Olaoye said “The last time I met the management, I shared my 25 years development plan with them and I told them I wanter them to be specialist in some aspects of medical line that will attract funding and professionals to the hopsital.
‘It helps the community becauae those people who have the kind of ailment you specialse in will come different part of the country for treatment and that will boost the economy and medical tourism value chain.
The monarch equally acknowledged and appreciate the efforts of O’first Group for their consistency in making Ogbomoso development their top priority.
“You have done great things two times within a week, this is a personal challenge for me and challenge to other socio- cultural groups in Ogbomoso we all need to do this together and i know we can start with a piece at a time and i know we will get there.
“The second we will consider is a low hanging fruit of development so as to make it easier for the development which is encapsulated in my 25years plan.”
Oba Olaoye, however, tasked the management of the Bowen teaching hospital to make proper use of the equipment and maintain them properly.
In his remark, the President of Ogbomoso First Group, Sir Olusegun Adekunle KJW, OON said the donation is in furtherance of the spirit of serving the people of Ogbomoso selflessly and in continuation of the celebration of the coronation of the 21 Soun of Ogbomoso, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye, Orumogege III.
“I find it necessary to state that this donation is borne out of the wise counsel and observation of our revered Kabiyesi that Ogbomoso is lucky to be a host community to two University teaching hospitals and that no effort should be spared in enhancing their technical capacities and also in achieving the goal of turning the city into a medical tourism destination.
“It will be recalled that over the last three years (especially at the peak of COVID-19 Pandemic), the O-First Group supported the tertiary medical institutions in Ogbomoso by donating some equipment including medical ventilators, oxygen concentrators, hospital blankets, PPEs, among others, to Bowen University Teaching Hospital and the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, respectively.
“It similarly helped to ensure that hospitals in Ogbomoso were among those prioritised by the Federal Government for supply of medical oxygen when there was scarcity nationwide.
“Similarly, working as partners, there was collaboration to deliver the medical outreach held at the O-First Centre, Oke Osuru, during which about five thousand underserved citizens were treated.We pledge to continue to do our best to support the medical institutions so as to optimize their capacities and ability to deliver quality services to our people. “
The Chief Medical Director of BUTH, Dr David Akintayo Olaolohun, while appreciating the Kabiesi and Ogbomoso First Group for the donation, promised to make judicious use of the equipment and ensure proper maintenance.
