Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, has attributed poor attitude of health professionals for pregnant women’s low patronage of hospitals. The commissioner stated this during the presentation of certificates and licenses yesterday to trained Traditional Birth Attendants, TBAs, at the main auditorium of the e-Library along IBB Way, Uyo. He said the unsympathetic attitude of health workers has driven pregnant women into the hands of the traditional birth attendants who are known for good attitude. “One of the reasons patients are running away from the hospitals is because of the attitude of some of us who are in the medical profession.
A patient who goes to the hospital is looking for help, for compassion. “When they cannot get that, their next step is to go to anybody that can help or claims to be able to help, and adds sympathy. “Whenever you go to them (traditional birth attendants), they are prepared to receive you because they have culture. Many of them are mothers who know what it is to give birth,” Ukpong noted. He maintained that the training of the TBAs was aimed improving Maternal and Neonatal Child Health and increasing uptake of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission, PMTCT, of HIV.
In her welcome address, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Dr Comfort Archibong, further stressed the need for training. Deputy Director of Leadership Management and Governance Project, LMG, Funmi Esan, during the presentation of the overview of the TBA engagement programme, said the 98 TBAs were drawn and trained in the three pilot local governments of Etinan, Eket and Ikot Ekpene.
Esan stressed that their training were carried out in two phases; basic training carried out by Akwa Ibom Ministry of Health, and internship that was organised by the State Hospital Management Board. She said the trainings were carried out within six weeks and that the trainers were drawn from government health institutions in the state, comprising matrons. While congratulating the TBAs for their commitment towards the training programme, the health commissioner urged them to upgrade their birth delivery facilities in accordance to set standards and criteria in the policy guidelines. He also implored them to always ensure that record of births and deaths during deliveries.
By: Julius Onwuma
The National Mirro News
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