State To Set Up Taskforce On Healthcare Delivery

The Chief Medical Director of the Ogun State Hospital in Ota, Dr Babatunde Banuso, has advised the State Government to set up a task force to monitor healthcare delivery to citizens. Banuso gave the advice in Ota on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).He said that proper monitoring of Primary Health Centres (PHC) would enable people at the grassroots to access quality health care. The chief medical director said the absence of effective monitoring had been contributing to the spill-over of patients from PHCs to Secondary Health Centres (SHCs).Banuso said that government needed to invest in monitoring of SHCs to ensure that workers did not abandoned their duty posts.

''There should be deliberate efforts by the government to monitor staff in PHCs so that they are doing the right thing. ''Banuso said that the machinery for proper monitoring must be large and functional because the PHCs were spread across the state. ''We have people coming for immunization, to check their blood pressure ad some with minor wounds at the SHCs that should have been treated in their Local Governments. ''The chief medical director expressed regrets that the inflow of patients from the PHCs to SHCs had put a lot of stress on workers in the state's hospitals. He said there was need for re-orientation of PHCs staff, so that an improved quality health service could be delivered to people at the grassroots. Banuso, who praised the government for renovating dilapidated buildings in the PHCs, called for proper monitoring of the renovation project to ensure proper execution of projects. (NAN)