The renovation, according to the project administrator, Past District 404B1 Governor, Olalekan Babalola was sponsored by Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF) in conjunction with Latter-Day Saint Charities (LDSC) to upgrade the eye centre meet up with utmost standard with the international eye centres to increase better living and guaranteed vision of more less-privileges in the society.
He said: "Lions Eye Clinic, Ota, was the 2006/2007 District core project of Dr Teslim Sanusi, who is also one of the strong members of the largest humanitarian service provider 'Lions Club' when he was District 404B Governor in Nigeria.
"The project was commissioned on Monday, June 25, 2007, by then Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. The Eye Clinic was established to include an eye bank and serve as Research Centre. The building of the centre was supported by Ogun State Goverment and other major donors. The centre has since then managing by Lions Club and Ogun State Goverment with an MoU duly signed."
He said the ongoing multi-million naira renovation was based on unsatisfactorily state of the centre's facilities by the Past International President, Naresh Aggarwal, when he visited the centre on Friday, March 29, 2019, and then requested for renovation assistance from the group's Sight First Advisory Committee (SAC) and approved in Oak Brook, Illinois, USA.
The approval, according to Mr Babalola include: Renovation and upgrade of facility, equipment and training of the centre's personnel.
He stressed that the project was scheduled to last for 12 months, noting that the eye centre will after the completion of the renovation, have a befitting edifice of providing excellent eye care services at minimal cost under and international standard hospital with efficient and highly trained profesionals.
Mr Babalola, explained that the group's research and projection for Ota Eye Centre is an extended ability to serve over one-million people in the society without expecting any returns from the people or goverment.
He said Lions Club would continue to render humanitarian services to the communities locally and globally, giving hope and impacting lives through organising projects and grants on vision, youth empowerment, disaster relief, diabetes, feeding the hungers, environmental protections and childhood cancer
The Chief Medical Director, Ota General Hospital, Dr Taofeek Osuolale Somade, in response, thanked Lions Clubs International for efforts of renovating the Eye Centre to meet the utmost international standard.
He described the renovation as a worthy project, while is to serve communities tremendously, saying this is one of the best way to assist the less-priviledges in the communities.
The CMD, unbehalf of the management, personnel and Ogun State Goverment, pledged that the facilities will be used accordingly to suit the purpose.
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