OGHA Screens Last Commissioner Nominee, Calls For Implementation Of Universal Health Coverage

Ogun State House of Assembly today screened the remaining one commissioner nominee, Dr. Olutomi Coker, a medical practitioner, whose name was among the list of 18 nominees sent to it by Governor Dapo Abiodun barely a week ago with a charge on her to evolve professional and administrative initiatives towards improving universal health coverage policy in the State health sector to reduce mortality.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, gave the charge while presiding over the screening of the nominee at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan.

According to the Speaker, the need to improve on the health scheme which had been operational in the State and nationwide, became expedient to reduce maternal and infant mortality rate with a view to eliminating financial incapacity being encountered by residents in accessing

quality health care services.

The Speaker in company of other lawmakers, stressed the need for the nominee to raise the bar of performance in the health scheme, having garnered experience in the health practices including obstetrics and gynecology beyond the shores of the nation.

Reeling out her profile, Coker, a native of Itesi, Abeokuta South, born 29th March, 1967 attended the University of Ibadan where she bagged Degree in Medicine in 1991, thereafter which she has added numerous advanced medical degrees to her credit from foreign based institutions including Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, London, United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, it would be recall that Governor Abiodun had on the 12th of December transmitted  18 names to the Assembly for screening, ratification and approval, with 17 of them screened and approved by the Assembly as worthy public office holders.