Majalisar Wakilai ta Nijeriya ta amince da kaiwa a kafa Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Kasa a Legas, a wani zabe da aka yi a ranar Laraba, Oktoba 30, 2024.
An yi wannan zabe a wajen karatu na biyu na wata doka mai suna, “A bill for an Act to amend the Federal Medical Centres Act and establish the Federal Medical Centre, Orile, Lagos State and for Related Matters.” Doka ta samu goyon bayan da dan majalisar wakilai dake wakiltar Surulere II Federal Constituency, Lanre Okunlola, ya gabatar da ita.
Okunlola ya bayyana cewa yawan mutane da ke zaune a Legas ya sa bukatar kafa cibiyoyin kiwon lafiya da yawa. Ya ce, “Legas, tare da yawan jama’arta da sauran al’ummar ta, tana fuskantar matsalar kiwon lafiya da ake iya samunsa, saboda asibitocin ilimi da ke nan sun kai iyakar karfin su na biyan bukatun al’umma mai girma da sauran al’ummar cosmopolitan.
“Kafar Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Kasa a Orile zai zama maganin canji, wanda zai rage matsalar asibitocin da ke nan da kuma inganta tsarin kiwon lafiya a yankin gaba daya,” in ya fada.
Dan majalisar wakilai ya APC ya ce cewa tare da yawan jama’arta da karuwar cutarwa da cututtuka masu girma, tsarin kiwon lafiya a yankin Orile da kewaye ba zai iya biyan bukatun al’umma ba. Ya ce, “Wannan rashin isassun tsarin kiwon lafiya ya sa mazauna yankin zama marasa isasshen kulawa, wanda zai haifar da barazanar lafiyarsu. Kafar Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Kasa a Orile zata zama hanyar samun kulawa ta hanyar tsari da kuma hanyar da ta dace.
Ya kara da cewa, idan aka kafa cibiyar, za ta faida mutanen yankin Orile kadai ba, har ma da mutanen yankin da ke kewaye wadanda ke fuskantar cututtuka masu girma.
