•Commends Adeleke’s Govt
On Thursday, August 15th, Correspondent visited two projects, namely a motorized borehole with a generating set and a newly built primary health centre in Agurodo community in Osun State. The borehole is a few meters away from the health center. It has two storage tanks, four taps, and a generator’s house. At the time of visitation, people were seen fetching water from the borehole.
However, Agurodo is a village under Ejigbo Local Government. It is populated by hundreds of people whose major occupation is farming.
Ronke, a 52-year-old woman, Revealed that residents usually trek more than 2km to the Arinkinin River, where they fetch water for domestic use, before the commissioning of the borehole project by CSDA.
“The village has two wells. One of the wells has dried off while people depended on the other one, even though it does not contain clean water. People contracted typhoid and other water-borne diseases due to the bad water from wells and rivers they drank,” Ronke explained.
According to Ronke, residents of the Agurodo community now drink good water and do not need to trek kilometers to access a quality water supply.
Meanwhile, an abandoned hand pump borehole, which is barely 500 meters from another abandoned health center.
The newspaper gathered that the hand pump stopped working more than 15 years ago.
A resident simply identified as Sade claimed that the community leaders are proposing the renovation of the abandoned health center to serve as housing or quarters for health officials.
A 73-year-old woman who’s an indigene of Ola but resides in Agurodo could not hide her excitement as she beams with joy while sitting in front of the newly built health centre.
According to Elizabeth, the picture of the newly built health center refreshes her memory of when the wife of his son had to be taken to Ejigbo town in the middle of the night because she wanted to deliver a baby.
“Whenever I enter this clinic for treatment or a BP check-up, I remember the stress and continue to return glory to God that we did not lose my grandson the night we rushed his mother to Ejigbo,” she disclosed.
Elizabeth, who prayed for the government and particularly CSDA to receive divine guidance to do more for the people, urged the agency not to abandon them in terms of road construction.
Emmanuel Oguntoye, a 65-year-old widower whose son developed a high fever and fainted around 1 a.m., explained how health officials working at the newly built primary health center in Agurodo, Ejigbo, were able to stabilize his son through quick and efficient treatment.
According to Oguntoye, health officials rushed to his aid after his son was brought to the center with the help of relatives, and his son was treated at no cost.
“God really wants to save the life of my son. If he got sick and fainted when we used to take ill people to a primary health center or general hospital in Ejigbo due to the terrible condition of our former health center, we might lose him. Thank God you also drove into our village, and you saw the terrible condition of our road,” a thankful Oguntoye said.
Oguntoye, who disclosed that pregnant women were initially taken to Ejigbo town or Ola community whenever they wanted to labor due to the deplorable state of their former health center, stated that the health center has put a stop to the recurrence of such incidents.
“We now have a newly built and equipped health center. There’s a water supply. Our women usually trek three kilometers to fetch water from the river for the previous health center. Things have really changed. Drugs are available too,” he added.
Oguntoye, while appreciating the Community and Social Development Agency in Osun State for their efforts in making lives better for the disadvantaged and needy, solicited for more projects such as roads and transformers.
Prince Oyelude Oladipupo, described the projects as laudable ones.
The 80-year-old man and one of the elders of the community commended Governor Ademola Adeleke for showing concern about the plight of the people of Agurodo through the provision of financial support for CSDA.
While hailing the performance of CSDA, Prince Oladipupo bitterly complained about the poor state of roads in the town and appealed to Governor Ademola Adeleke to help the town fix it. Details HERE
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