People living with HIV/AIDS in Osun state have cried out for help as
their conditions were deteriorating due to their inability to access
their drugs from government hospitals in the state as a result of the
on-going strike by the civil servants.
Addressing press conference, a Non-Governmental Organization in Osun
State, Hope for Family Development Initiative (HFDI) which caters for
vulnerable people said those living with HIV/AIDS in the state really
needed their drugs very desperately to prevent complication.
The Executive Director of HFDI, Mr Stephen Aremu said HIV/ADIS
patients have been coming to its secretariat to seek help. The NGO
called on the state government to pay the workers so that the workers
would resume and make drugs available to the HIV/AIDS patients.
The NGO frowned that it was disturbing that Osun state government did
not pay salary of its workers for seven months and asked Aregbesola to
explain how he spends federal allocation he received in the last one
year.
Aremu said many people in the state, especially the pensioners, have
died of curable sicknesses due to their inability to buy drugs as a
result of non-payment of salary by the state government.
He said it is on record that death rate in the state has increased
geometrically and posited that a government that fails to cater for
the welfare of its workforce is not fit to rule.
“A lot of people have died of hunger while many died of curable
sicknesses and the cause of their death centred on lack of money. Many
cases of death among the workers were preventable if the victims had
money to take care of their health at the appropriate time”, he said
The NGO also said that divorce rate in the state has increased and
that many homes have been broken due to the current situation in the states.
their conditions were deteriorating due to their inability to access
their drugs from government hospitals in the state as a result of the
on-going strike by the civil servants.
Addressing press conference, a Non-Governmental Organization in Osun
State, Hope for Family Development Initiative (HFDI) which caters for
vulnerable people said those living with HIV/AIDS in the state really
needed their drugs very desperately to prevent complication.
The Executive Director of HFDI, Mr Stephen Aremu said HIV/ADIS
patients have been coming to its secretariat to seek help. The NGO
called on the state government to pay the workers so that the workers
would resume and make drugs available to the HIV/AIDS patients.
The NGO frowned that it was disturbing that Osun state government did
not pay salary of its workers for seven months and asked Aregbesola to
explain how he spends federal allocation he received in the last one
year.
Aremu said many people in the state, especially the pensioners, have
died of curable sicknesses due to their inability to buy drugs as a
result of non-payment of salary by the state government.
He said it is on record that death rate in the state has increased
geometrically and posited that a government that fails to cater for
the welfare of its workforce is not fit to rule.
“A lot of people have died of hunger while many died of curable
sicknesses and the cause of their death centred on lack of money. Many
cases of death among the workers were preventable if the victims had
money to take care of their health at the appropriate time”, he said
The NGO also said that divorce rate in the state has increased and
that many homes have been broken due to the current situation in the states.
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