Residents groan as medical workers desert collapsed Ogun health centre

<p>Communities in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Monday, appealed to the state government to help them rebuild their only health centre that has collapsed.</p>, <p>Our correspondent gathered that the facility was built as a constituency project of some federal lawmakers in 2007.</p>, <p>When our correspondent visited the communities on Monday, the health facility has been deserted by medical workers after it collapsed.</p>, <p>The facility was said to have served six Community Development Committees which had over 100 communities each.</p>, <p>The Chairman of the Federal-Opeji CDC, one of the affected communities, Dapo Wahab, said the facility, before it collapsed, served five others which were Bode-Olude Area CDC, Fadage Area CDC, Ilupeju-Bode-Olude Area CDC, Mawuko Area CDC and part of Arakanga Area CDC.</p>, <p>Wahab said medical workers had to leave the structure when it started collapsing.</p>, <p>He said, “This hospital was named Bode-Olude Health Centre. It was built for the benefit of the community people. In the area, we have more than 100 communities that are benefitting from this facility.</p>, <p>“Aside from Ifedara-Opeji Area Community Development Committee that hosts this health facility, we have others such as Bode-Olude, Ilupeju-Bode-Olude Area CDC, Fadage Area CDC, Mawuko Area CDC and part of Arakanga Area CDC.</p>, <p>“One area CDC has more than 40 CDAs, and we have more than 5,000 community members benefiting from this health facility.</p>, <p>“It was sponsored by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo- Bello and Kayode Amusan. We renovated part of it with N1m that the communities contributed.”</p>, <p>Wahab said the communities had been seeking help from the state government beginning from the administration of a former governor, Gbenga Daniel, but nothing was done.</p>, <p>“This is a difficult situation for us. We are living in agony, people are not happy, and we have a lot of pregnant women in these communities. This is what they depend on. It is very difficult for them to move from here