Ekiti to recruit more doctors, health workers – Oyebanji 

Ekiti state governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, Tuesday, said his administration would recruit more medical doctors and health workers for all general hospitals and basic health centres across the state.

He also assured of improved welfare package as a way of curbing shortage of medical personnel in government hospitals. 

The governor said his administration has made quality healthcare accessible, available, and affordable for the people of the state in a bid to ensure the wellbeing of the citizens, even as he stated that the government is also renovating one primary health centre in each of the 177 wards in the state. 

Governor Oyebanji, who stated this while inspecting road projects and comprehensive renovation of nine general hospitals in the state, said his government is collabor hospitals. 

He said the National Assembly members, under the arrangement, will bear the cost of salaries and allowances of the newly recruited doctors and health workers for one year. 

He assured that the recruitment of doctors and health workers will commence soon, adding that all the general hospitals in the state would have full complement of medical professionals before the end of the year. 

This, he said, will help stem the tide of shortage of medical personnel, particularly doctors and nurses in health facilities in the state, and ensure effective utilisation of modern equipment and facilities being put in place by the government.