Adeniyi Ìṣhọlá
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article to draw attention to what I described as an alarming and unacceptable reality: the absence of a single functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine in any public hospital in Kwara State.
That article was prompted by the grief of a lady, who had taken to X (formerly Twitter) to mourn her uncle, whose death she attributed to the unavailability of MRI services within Kwara. Her pain exposed what many residents already knew but had come to normalise — that for certain critical diagnostic services, Kwarans are largely on their own. In today’s world, how can an entire state with a population of over three million people operate without one functional MRI machine in its public hospitals? This is the heartbreaking reality Kwarans have had to endure for about seven years of the present administration in the state.