Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Sokoto State chapter, has decried what it called shortage of manpower in public hospitals across the state.
It called on the state government to establish additional colleges of health in order to bridge the gap.
Chairman of the union, Comrade Abdullahi Aliyu, said the establishment of new schools would afford the state opportunity to train enough manpower for the health sector.
He added that the existing schools, College of Health and Midwifery and the Sultan Abdul-Rahman School of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, could not produce the number of workers needed in the state. Aliyu also chided the state government for giving medical doctors appointments at the newly established Primary Healthcare Development Agency, saying the action was inimical to its objectives.
He said allowing doctors to dominate the agency at “the expense of trained and experienced primary healthcare workers who work at the rural areas would only spell doom to the government’s efforts towards improving service delivery at the primary health centres”.
“In my candid opinion, medical doctors should be made to work where their services are most needed,” he said.
In another development, the group noted that Sokoto is the only state in the federation without epidemiological unit and government health office and that development makes the state vulnerable to outbreaks.
The union made the observation in a statement signed by its chairman and secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu and Umaru Kudu.
It said that government health offices and epidemiological unit were important public outfits for prevention and control of outbreak of communicable diseases, mass immunization in case of epidemic, health education, inspection and licensing of food establishment, sampling of water to ensure its fitness for human consumption among others.
The union lamented that the only epidemiological unit and health office located at Sultan Abubakar road were “blindly” handed over to the National Blood Bank and Development partners including their equipment.
“We wish to call on the state government to as a matter of urgency consider the re-establishment of such facilities,” it said.
By: Idowu Olabode
Daily Trust News
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