ANAMBRA HEALTH MINISTRY, CONCLUDES ONE DAY TRAINING FOR DOCTORS, NURSING HEADS ON EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT SERVICE DELIVERY

 Health Ministry concludes one day training for Doctors, Nursing heads on effective, efficient service delivery

 By Chukwudi Nwauba

The Anambra state Ministry of Health has concluded a one day training for Doctors and Nursing heads for effective and efficient service delivery.

The training has its theme as `Achieving Universal Health Coverage Through The Health Worker Attitudinal Change.’

 Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike said that the State Government wants to reform the healthcare sector through training and retraining.

Dr. Obidike explained that the essence of the training is for health workers working in government owned facilities to have attitudinal change as it is vital in achieving universal health coverage.

According to him, participants were drawn from medical facilities across the state.

The commissioner noted that the objective of Gov. Charles Soludo's administration in the health sector is to have a functional and effective primary healthcare centres as well as general hospitals in the state.

 ``We will soon inject more health professionals into the system for optimal performance and results. 

Dr. Obidike urged the participants to cascade down what they have learned from the training to their staff in the various hospitals.

He informed that the State ministry of Health has established a task force team to check indiscipline, truancy and corruption in the system; even as he made it clear that they take the issue of workers welfare seriously.

A lecturer from the Department of Surgery, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Dr. Okechukwu Jideofor Ugwu, who delivered a lecture during the event, said that the essence of the training is to empower medical practitioners to be in tune with the ethics of the profession, as well as for them to maintain international best practices.

 ``This training is to reawaken them on need to offer optimum health care services to the ever increasing patients and ensure all encompassing and comprehensive health care services at all times.’’

Earlier, the State Coordinator World Health Organisation, Dr. Abdulnasir Adamu commended the State government for organising the training, urging the participants to be committed in discharging their duties.

The Head of the Department of Pharmacy, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka, Pharmacist Obiageli Uchebo, Dr. Henry Nwankwo, who is the Deputy Chairman, Medical Advisory Council, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, and Dr. Ejike Orji, the Senior Special Assistant to the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Health and Hospital Management, who spoke via zoom from Abuja, all delivered lectures during the training.