Determined to provide better health service delivery for citizens and residents who have enrolled in the Ogun State Health Insurance Scheme (OGSHIS), the leadership of the State's Hospitals Management Board has procured and distributed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) gadgets to State and General Hospitals across the State.

While presenting the gadgets to the Chief Medical Directors and desk officers of the hospitals, the Permanent Secretary of the Board, Dr. Olayinka Elemide, disclosed that the device would help to improve the process of data capturing and gathering of patients' information.

Dr. Elemide added that the gadgets, which have OGSHIA compliance applications installed on them with password-enabled Google Sheets, would aid in accurate and prompt submission of data to further help in the provision of effective and efficient health care services for the people.

"As we all know, insurance is actually the way to go, and if we don't have our data well-captured and promptly transmitted to the appropriate quarters, it would affect our reporting, and that is how we can evaluate our processes and monitor and know how well we are doing," Elemide said.

The Permanent Secretary, who stated that the data of officers across all the secondary health facilities have been well trained to effectively operate the gadgets, charged them to be up and doing and justify the resources expended on the tablets.

Appreciating the State government through the Board for the gadgets, the Chief Medical Directors of Oba Ademola Maternity Hospital, Dr. Olugbenga Taiwo, and his counterpart in Olikoye Ransom Kuti Memorial Hospital, Dr. Olujimi Dipeolu, said the gadgets would help in effective capturing and prompt submission of data to appropriate quarters.