Still on the upgrade and conversion of Ilesa Wesley Guild Hospital to National Medical Centre status (Lumobi Haastrup makes case for Ijesa people in an inserted video clip)

KAKAKIOODUA could recall that a bill for an act to provide the legal framework for the upgrade and conversion of Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa to Federal Medical Centre, Ilesa, Osun State had scaled second and third reading in the House of Representatives.

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The bill that sought to amend the Federal Medical Centres (Principal Act), 2022.had since been transmitted to Senate for concurrence.

Sponsors of the Hon. Ayeni Babatunde and Hon. Ajiesoro Taofeek Abimbola in their lead debate, said it aims to equip, maintain and operate the medical center to deliver health care services.

The Wesley Guild Hospital which is sitting on an eight acre parcel of land has been in existence since 1913, serving as referral center to all five established outreach primary healthcare centers.

The hospital grew in infrastructure and in annual out-patient attendance from 10,000 in 1913 to 27,000 in 1927 with 450 operation and 35 deliveries. It had developed from a mud dispensary in the 5 villages of Imesi ile, Esa-oke, Ipetu, Osu and Ijeda with the Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesa serving as referral center.

The infrastructure and services of the hospital to a high standard worthy of incorporation into the newly established Ife University Teaching Hospital Complex (now Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife started in 1975.

The Federal Government took over the hospital in 1975 as one of the four hospitals to be used as the teaching hospital for the newly created medical school of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife).

Since the take over into the teaching hospital, the Federal Government through successive Chief Medical Directors, has invested substantially in the development and expansion of the hospital facilities and services to the present status that makes it capable of standing alone to offer quality tertiary health care services, training and research.

Before the inception of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife (OAUTHC), Wesley Guild Hospital had been for many years, an outside posting hospital for training by University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan.

The Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa has developed and grown to an enviable state ministering to the health needs of Nigerians near and far in high quality preventive and curative healthcare services, training and research.

The annual patient’s turnover has grown steadily over the years to about 6,000 for admission and 150,000 for outpatients.

This performance will be increased if the hospital is upgraded and converted to a status of self-administration as this will reduce bottle necks to progress.