Due to the increasing rate of vehicular accidents, incessant bombings,
as well as other unforeseen emergencies, claiming lives of Nigerians in
thousands, the federal government has revealed the plan to build no fewer than
22 trauma centres across the country, to take care of victims of such
emergencies.
But in a recent interview with THISDAY (a Nigerian newspaper), the Ondo
State Commissioner for health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju believes that the federal
government's plan to build such trauma centres may not be a final solution. In
his view, there is nothing bad about building trauma centres, but some issues
must be put into consideration to be able to achieve effective result from such
centres.
He gave the example of Ondo State, where the present administration met
a deplorable health situation that portrayed the image of the successive
administrations in the State in a bad manner. The state was even voted as the
worse in terms of maternal health shortly before the inception of the present
administration.
