By Ewomazino Egbo
ASABA/Nigeria: The Permanent Secretary Delta State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Jude Winful-Orieke has charged participants in a Five day quality of care training to justify training with enhanced productivity.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Dr. Winful-Orieke said the training was organized to address the major challenges in the primary healthcare sector and to equip the trainees with skills on the best approach to addressing the situation.
“Your immediate community should know and see the difference in how you deliver health services to them, your capacity, knowledge, and skills as a health care worker has been enhanced so the quality of maternal and child health services provided at the primary health care facility is to improve,” Winful-Orieke said.
The permanent secretary urged the participants to redouble their commitment in health service delivery as it will promote universal health coverage.
Winful-Orieke appealed to Deltans to also seek medical attention from the Primary Health Care centers as most Ailments that are supposed to be taken care of at the primary health care level, are being treated at the secondary and tertiary health facilities.
The Team Facilitator from the National Primary Health Care Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Iriah Akhere-Ugbesia, while buttressing the need for the training said: “NPHCDA identified health workers’ capacity gaps as a key challenge in the delivery and access to quality reproductive, maternal, child Adolescent Health and nutrition services at the primary health care level in Nigeria.”
Akhere-Ugbesia added, “It is also to orient them on how to carry out quality improvement and quality assessment at the primary health care facilities, based on their findings from the quality assessment that they will be doing quarterly.”
The facilitator revealed that the training executed under the World Bank’s Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transmission Services, IMPACT project was being implemented in eighteen (18) States of the federation.
Some Participants who spoke lauded the training and pledged to be good ambassadors of the training by prioritizing patient-centeredness.
Participants at the Five Day Quality of Health Training include Executive Secretaries, Reproductive Health Officers, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers in Primary Health Care Centers across the state.
