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Group Wants Effective Supervision Of Health Workers
The Bayelsa State Ministry of Health has been charged to take supervision of health workers and medical personnel in the rural areas of the state serious.
The Actionaid Programme Manager, Mr. Eric Shu gave the charge during a stakeholders’ consultative meeting with the Bayelsa State Ministry of Health on enhancing essential sexual reproductive health and HIV/AIDS care among post conflict and internally displaced communities in Nigeria.
Mr. Shu stated that the meeting was to share information that would help to synchronise data at the community level, which was funded by European Union and co-funded by Actionaid, in collaboration with Man and Water Survival Foundation (MWSF).
The representatives of the Ministry of Health were shown the slides of some of the communities facing challenges such as dilapidated facility in Tein Cottage Hospital in Biseni clan, Yenagoa Local Government area, and absence of medical personnel’s in Onuebum and Kalaba primary health centres, all in Ogbia and Yenagoa Local Government Areas.
It also include high fee for delivery, where most facilities charge as high as 6,000, and problem with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) funds and unequipped facility.
The Progamme Manager described as worrisome the case of Zarama-Nyambiri community, which has donated a building for their health centre with no equipment and medical personnel posted to the place.
He stressed that the ministry of health would have to see a reason of rescuing the state of such facility in order to reduce infant, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS in rural areas.
He also mentioned Otuegwe I Health Centre built in 2004 by LEEMP, which has neither personnel nor equipment and had remained non-functional since then, apeealing to the Ministry to do something about it.
Speaking at the meeting, the Director, HRM, Ministry of Health, Dame Grace T. Fiepere expressed gratitude to Actionaid and Man and Water Survival Foundation for their intervention.
She urged them to do more work, including the STAR circle members at the community level enlightening the people in order to ensure that the spread of HIV/AIDS was reduced.
Dame Fiepere thanked the organisation for giving the ministry so much food for thought in order for them to rub minds and prayed for the will-power to tackle the issues before them.
The Director stated that it is a reflection of the society for health personnel posted to communities, to display negligence of duty.
She called on pointed out that communities to such health personnel to the ministry to take care of such cases so that the health sector would be sanitised.
Also, the World Health Organisation (WHO) State Coordinator, Dr. Thompson Igbu, expressed disgust on the way NHIS was being implemented, saying it was not to the benefit of the people.
He stressed that the ministry, which ought to be part of the monitoring, was not playing active role because of some persons’ selfish interest”.
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