ASABA/Nigeria: The Chairman of the Delta State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Isioma Okobah, has charged health care workers to improve the state health index.
Dr Okobah who gave the charge today in Asaba while opening the Training on Integrated Supportive Supervision, said that the training was conducted to enhance their capacity to effective health delivery.
Noting that the state health index was above average, Dr Okobah implored participants to scale up the index to justify the state governor’s huge investment in the health sector.
The Agency Chairman urged health workers to be emphatic and practice team work in the discharge of their duty especially in health promotion and disease prevention.
Speaking, the Executive Director of the Agency, Dr Jude Winful-Orieke, commended participants for their dedication to duty and reminded them of the six pillars of primary health care.
Outlining the importance of primary health care workers in improving maternal and child health, routine immunization, child nutrition, elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV as well as malaria control, Dr Winful-Orieke enjoined participants to use the knowledge garnered from the training judiciously.
The three-day workshop is being conducted in collaboration with the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOMLPforR) and has the executive secretaries, local immunization officers, health management information officers and the reproductive health supervisors from the 25 LGAs as participants.
