Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services Chairman, Honorable Suru Avoseh has warned that any Medical Officer of Health (...
Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services Chairman, Honorable Suru Avoseh has warned that any Medical Officer of Health (MOH) found wanting in the discharge of his duty would be dealt with accordingly.
The Lawmaker, who made this known at Oshodi Primary Health Centre at Ajibulu Street as part of the Committee visitation to the PHCs noted that “At most of the PHC visited, the MOH were not on ground to attend to the patients, rather they were found at the Local Council pursuing files and roaming about”.
Avoseh, while highlighting that the purpose of the MOH in the PHC include complementing efforts of the Doctors in attending to patients promptly without delay, however, called on the Ministry of Health through the Special Adviser on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina to monitor the activities of these MOH.
According to him, the State Government cannot afford to lose patients to quack doctors in some of the private hospitals, saying that all hands must be on deck to provide affordable and accessible health care delivery to residents of the State.
“We want our medical personnel to be up and doing, a situation where patients goes to the PHC and spend several hours without being attended to would no longer be tolerated. Health care delivery has changed, that is why the State Government is improving on health centers in the State”, he noted.
The Committee Chairman emphasised that the State Government recently employed about 300 health volunteers who were deployed to the various PHCs to compliment efforts of nurses and midwives in the registration of patients and crowd control at the PHCs, just as he expressed dissatisfaction over the reception accorded his Committee at the Iru-Victoria Island LCDA when they visited the place recently where no top management of the Council including the Council Chairman was on ground to receive them as at 10:30 am, inspite earlier notification
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