The newly commissioned Mother and Child Hospital in Ondo
town has become swamped with hundreds of pregnant women trooping to the
state-of-the-art medical complex to take advantage of its world acclaimed
facilities and services.
Reports indicated that the hospital, which is the second of
its type after the one in Akure, actually started taking in pregnant women from
Ondo towns and communities even before its official commissioning on Friday 30th
November, 2012, as the first baby was recorded few hours before Governor Mimiko
formally declared it open.
The baby girl was delivered by Mrs Abigail Akinmolayan at
the hospital at about 10:00am few hours before the formal inauguration of the
medical complex said to be the bigger of the two operational ones in the state.
Mrs Akinmolayan appreciated the government and medical
workers at the edifice for what she described as out-of-this-world equipment
and services rendered free-of-charge at the hospital.
The fame of the hospital, which was piloted with the one in
Akure, has become so widespread that several now bring their wives or sisters
from neighboring states to the Hospital to enjoy its services.
Meanwhile, the commissioning and take off of the Ondo town
arm of the hospital is expected to relieve the one in Akure of its overload as
many who used to come from the southern senatorial district and some parts of
the central district as well as Osun and Edo states could now shift to Ondo
town instead of coming to Akure.
The Mother and Child Hospital initiative is a major
component of the Abiye Safe Motherhood program of the state government aimed
at reducing the rate of mortality which has reached an alarming proportion in
the country.
So successful has the one in Akure become that the state
government has said it would replicate same in the three senatorial districts
of the state.
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