Health Practitioners Commend Fubara On Promotion

The National Association of Community Health Practitioners, Rivers State Council, has commended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, for approving community health practitioners’ promotion after 12 years of stagnation.
It also commended the Governor for the approval and implementation of the #30,000 minimum wage for all community health practitioners in the state.
The association, which stated this at a media briefing in Port Harcourt, described the Governor’s gesture as an indication of his love, not just to community health practitioners, but also the entire workforce of Rivers State.
According to the text for the briefing, read by the Association’s chairperson, Justina Uche Onuwa, “we expressed our heartfelt gratitude to our Governor for his love and concern for all community health practitioners in Rivers State.
“We thank him for approving our promotion after 12 years of stagnation and immediately implementation of the promotion.
“Approving and paying the #30,000 minimum wage to all community health practitioners in Rivers state”, it said.
The Association, however, called on the Governor to direct the caretaker Chairmen to implement its CoHESS salary structure which its colleagues at the state level are enjoying.
It also appealed for the transfer of community health practitioners from the local governments to the state civil service and the include community health practitioners in the employment of workers in the state.
The Association described community health practitioners as the front line of primary health care practitioners in Nigeria, adding that they are responsible for preventive, curative and promotive health services, including immunisation in all primary health care facilities in Rivers State and Nigeria in the areas of COVID-19 prevention and treatment, Human papilloma virus, and upcoming measles and monkey pox vaccine immunization.
It said community health practitioners also carried out treatment of minor ailments using standard orders, maternal and child health services in various health centres and home based and administrative function.

By: John Bibor and Nancy Matthew