THWARTING ‘FREE’ HEALTHCARE RENDITIONS; TWENTY ‘REAL’ HEALTHCARE RENDERINGS - (ONDO 2025 - 2029)
Now that Governorship candidates have emerged ahead of the November 2024 elections in Ondo State, what will they tell us during the campaigns about their respective healthcare plans? Rather, can we guide their campaign renditions & interactions and by so doing, positively influence the winner’s post-election renderings & interventions in the health sector from 24 th February 2025 – 23 rd February 2029? Permit me to use the duo of His Excellency, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the ruling All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and His Excellency former Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as points of contact to the governorship candidates that this article seeks to address. Healthcare is a commodity with demand and supply sides, bearing in mind the cost implications of the latter. After all, nothing is free, even in Freetown. Therefore, it is an economically dangerous approach to ‘be seen’ to tackle Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) for healthcare se