The Oyo State Government, on Saturday, commenced the process to review its minimum health service package that patients can access at primary health care facilities across the state.
According to The PUNCH, the State Commissioner for Health, Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, stated this while delivering her speech at the review meeting held in Oyo town.
A statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, in Ibadan, the state capital, quoted Ajetunmobi as saying that the minimum service package needs to be standardised.
She revealed that the primary objective of the review meeting was to meet the basic health needs of the entire people of the state, adding that the initiative is a priority set of interventions that should be provided in PHC centres daily at little or no cost.
She added “This meeting is designed to strengthen health service delivery in our state at the PHC level.
“The Minimum Health Service Package, according to the Federal Government policy is described as a priority set of interventions that should be provided in PHC centres daily, at all times, and at little or no cost to clients through the government. financing mechanisms.
“MSP is deployed to meet the needs of the entire population in the state where resources are limited by aggregating services together.
The MSP minimises costs, for both of the services as well as for patients to receive the services.
“The present administration in the state is also making frantic efforts to ensure that government health facilities are adequately equipped so that the people of the state can enjoy appropriate and qualitative health care”, she stressed.
