NGO Donates Anti-malaria Drugs to 10,000 Pregnant Women in Oyo

Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan 

A non-governmental organisation, Hacey Health Initiative, has donated 30,000 doses of IPTp-SP anti-malaria drug to no fewer than 10,000 pregnant women across 18 local government areas in Oyo State.

The Executive Director, Hacey Health Initiative, Rhoda Robinson, while speaking in Ibadan at the official donation of the health commodities and presentation of Impact Health Data Management Dashboard to the State Primary Healthcare Board (OYSPHB), said the donation was part of efforts towards adequate healthcare delivery to people of the state, lamenting that maternal mortality has become a big challenge across the country. 

According to her, the organisation has been able to further promote access to affordable and quality healthcare delivery service to people in the state with the donation.

She added that Hacey, over the last few years, has been working directly with the state government to develop the Impact Health Solution, a digital platform that connects and coordinates data collection at the point of delivery and uses the data, presents and analyses it for the state to ensure that decision making at state level are data informed and able to collect data and use it in real time.

According to Robinson, “As part of this project, we were able to train and build capacity of health workers to use digital technology to improve the health provisions at primary healthcare level. We are looking forward to expand the impact of this project to cover not just anti-natal care but to other maternal healthcare as a whole.

“Impact Health has touched 99 facilities in 18 local government areas across the state and our mission is to have adequate healthcare services.”

She lauded the state government and health workers for working with Hacey to ensure adequate and better health care delivery to the people of the state.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Soji Adeyanju, thanked Hacey for the gesture, stating that its intervention in data gathering cannot be overemphasized, as it will help the state to prepare not just for the present generation but generations yet unborn in betterment of healthcare delivery.

The Executive Secretary, OYSPHB, Dr. Muyideen Olatunji, in his remarks, described the step as a welcome development and a way of strengthening the state by making it to retain its position as the pace setter.