By Auwal Mohammed
Kaduna (Nigeria) — An NGO, Save the Children International has commenced the training of 39 key players in the Heath Sector from Gombe northeast Nigeria on Change Management and the importance of Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR).
Speaking at the opening of the training in Kaduna, Save the Children Field Manager for Gombe, Altine Lewi, said, “This training is meant to strengthen service delivery at the PHC level. This is to consolidate the State performance in the recent score card 3 assessment where the state performed creditably well having scored 59% in the overall performance covering most of the thematic areas as released by the National Primary Health Care development Agency
“The training will enhance participant’s consciousness on the current situation and future position of the State’s Primary Health Care and strengthen the capacity of the key actors to address some gaps”, Ms. Lewi said.
“Under the National Health Act every state will need a single primary health care board whose job is to oversee and ensure the implementation of the state approach to primary health care, which give each state right to decide how its primary health care board will operate and called, provided it conforms to any mandatory requirement in the final National Health Act”, the field Manager added.
Speaking Gombe State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Kennedy Ishaya commended Save the Children for support to the state in the health sector and assured the state government acceptance of the policy on the Change Management and Primary Health Care Under One Roof.
He said “it is a welcome development to the state primary health care agency, ministry of health and the state in general.
The five-day training has as its participant Directors from Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency; Commissioners from Ministry for Health, Ministry for Local Government, Ministry for Finance and Justice; Chairmen House Committees, Health and Appropriations, MNCH Coalition and Health Reporters from various media organisations, including AFRICA PRIME NEWS.
