Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has receiving
support of medical equipment worth N220 million from the Coalition Against
COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector initiative supporting Federal Government
and state governments in fight against COVID-19.
The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Engr.
Rauf Olaniyan, declared his readiness to turn around the standard of the
100-bed isolation and treatment Centre in Saki, Oke Ogun, will be an
improvement on the one existing in Olodo, Ibadan.
CACOVID had earlier promised the state N220 million
worth of medical equipment and a cash gift of N30 million. The private
sector-driven CACOVID, we hear is in partnership with First Bank of Nigeria.
CACOVID also donated
to the state government include, equipments which included lead ECG electrode,
heavy duty apron, autoclave, auto syringe pump, biohazard bag, blood warmer,
centrifuge (refrigerator), defibrillators (AED) and portable ultrasound
imaging.
Others are mobile digital x-ray unit, face shield,
protective goggles, hospital gowns, oxygen cylinders, wheelchairs, oxygen
concentrator, oxygen regulators, nebuliser, kidney dish, patient multiparameter
monitor, stretcher and suction devices.
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