Gov Adeleke Is 2024 New Telegraph Newspaper’s Governor Of The Year (Health)
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has been named as 2024 Governor of the year in the health Sector by the New Telegraph Newspaper.
A statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by Adeleke’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed noted that this was contained in a letter sent to the governor by the Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited, publishers of New Telegraph, Saturday Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers which was signed by its Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Mr Ayodele Aminun
The letter, he added, noted that Governor Adeleke’s nomination was made as recommended by the Board of Editors and Panel of Judges of the Newspaper.
‘We have followed closely your very impressive strides in the Health Sector since you assumed office as Governor of Osun State.
In arriving at our decision, we specifically noted the following: Rehabilitation of 345 Health Centres in the 332 Wards in Osun State; Provision of potable water, new toilets and bathrooms, renovation and painting of buildings and electricity.
The approach has taken medical services to the doorstep of the people.
Introduction of Imole Surgical and Medical Outreach, under which the state government has conducted three medical outreaches in three locations in each of the three Senatorial districts in the last 12 months; Various surgical procedures, including cataract eye surgeries, were done on over 30,000 patients; Enrolled thousands of Osun Residents under Osun’ Health Insurance Scheme.
These and many more earned Osun State the South-West Champion Award in Primary Healthcare (Universal Health Coverage) with a $500,000 cash award in December 2024.
Given the foregoing, we are pleased to honour you with the above-mentioned award at the New Telegraph 2024 Awards Ceremony’ the newspaper submitted in the letter in question.
The statement noted that the awards ceremony will be held later.
Recall that Governor Adeleke had won several other awards which include: Vanguard Newspaper’s Governor of the Year; 2024 Best Civil Service-Loving Governor in Nigeria Award by the Nigeria Civil Service Union; The Boss Newspaper’s 2024, Governor of the Year; News Direct Newspaper’s 2024 Governor of the Year; 2024 NIPR Excellence Award; Nigeria Society of Engineers Excellence Award, among others-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
