The Primary Health Centre in Elewura community, Ibadan South-West LGA, is no longer fully functional.
Facts on ground:
- Building heavily dilapidated – cracked walls, rusted and leaking roof
- Overgrown bush around the facility harbouring snakes
- No running water, no electricity, no labour room, no laboratory
- Only one nurse posted most days
- No delivery bed, no family planning unit, no gender-separated wards
- All diagnostic tests (malaria, urine, etc.) require referral
- No borehole – staff and patients rely on rainwater or streams
Matron Oladipupo A.A., Officer-in-Charge, stated:
“We urgently need renovation, borehole, power supply, antenatal room, delivery room, laboratory, weighing scales, BP apparatus and plastic chairs. Right now the Primary Health Centre is slowly turning into a bush.”
Community reports confirm:
- In the past year, at least two children died from severe malaria after referral to distant hospitals
- Most pregnant women now deliver at home or with traditional birth attendants
Responsibility for maintenance and staffing lies with the Local Government Authority. Oyo State receives federal Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) support, but residents say no visible impact has reached Elewura PHC.
The clinic remains open but can only provide very limited services.
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