KWSG URGES HEALTH WORKERS TO BE SERVICE DELIVERY-ORIENTED, COMMITTED TO DUTY
The Kwara State Government, through the State Hospital Management Board (HMB), has urged health workers to be committed to service delivery to justify the huge resources committed to the health sector by the government.
The Executive Secretary of the Hospitals Management Board, Dr. Abdulraheem Malik, stated this at the Share General Hospital, during the routine monitoring exercise of the Board.
The Executive Secretary also disclosed that the exercise is one of the core mandates of the Agency, aimed at having first hand information on activities going on in all the health facilities of the State government.
Dr.Malik assured the public that all the facilities under the Agency would give maximum service delivery to justify the effort of the Government towards providing accessible and quality health care services.
He further noted that the Agency had adopted a digital application for staff, which would help in monitoring the activities of all the staff to ensure efficiency.
The Director of Medical Services and Training, Dr.Femi Joseph Emmanuel who appealed to the staff to keep proper health records of patients, added that keeping proper health records would help in effective transmission of patients' history for prompt medical interventions.
He further emphasized the need for the staff to reconcile data with the right officers before upward transmission to the appropriate authority, which would help in proper policy formulation.
Responding, the Chief Medical Director of the Share General Hospital, Dr.Oyeniyi Ayodeji, commended the management of the Hospital Management Board (HMB) for their visit and support at all times and assured the management of the Agency that the facility would do its best to deliver quality healthcare services to the public.
He identified some gaps as challenges for the hospital, ranging from inadequate manpower, structural repairs, and staff welfare.
Some of the hospital departments inspected included the laboratory, medical records, pharmacy, theatre, wards, accident, emergency and maternity wards, among others.
Those on the entourage of the Executive Secretary included the Director of Personnel Finance and Supply, Mr Abayomi Suleiman Gada, the Director of Medical Services and Training; Dr Femi Joseph Emmanuel, the Director of Health Records; Mr.Abdulkadir Abubakar, the Director of Pharmacy, Pharm. Jimoh Mustapha, among others.
Adamu Usman
Press secretary
HMB
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