By Usman Usman Garba
Kano State Government, World Health Organization and other development partners have organized a special training for educating frontline health workers in the state based on clinical competences in order to improve health outcomes in their respective hospitals.
The essence of the training, according to the commissioner of health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf was to help people (patients) to overcome their problems as 70% out of 100% attending Primary Health Care Units.
Adding that 5,000 health workers would benefit from the training, urging them to work hard, prevent and overcome some common diseases in the state.
He said, “Our aim is for you to use your knowledge or experience to prevent any kind of disease instead of allowing a patient (s) to go without a proper solution to his or her problems.
“Diagnosis and treatment prevent the occurrence of various diseases among individuals. So we urge you that, whenever you see a patient, work hard to assist him/her.
The commissioner has also informed the trainee to use different tactics for solving problems by highlighting some of the diseases that become rampart in the state which encompassed cholera, malaria, diphtheria and polio as well.
“We want you to stand firm and make sure you do all it takes for solving people’s problems and you have to be updating yourselves daily,” he advised.
Dr. Yusuf has lastly appreciated the effort of President Bola Tinubu, Federal Ministry of Health as well as other partners for their initiative and support for the program nationwide.
Also, the State Coordinator, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Kano Field Office, Dr. Kabiru Mustapha Yakasai has emphasized that the aim of the seminar was to elevate the standard of healthcare services and improve health outcomes in Kano and across Nigeria.
“The essence of coming up with such training is to inform and educate the primary health workers, because they are close to the community before attending other hospitals in the state.
“The training also encompassed the distribution of drugs like that of malaria, and taking care of other diseases like cholera, HIV, nutrition and emergency treatment under referral system,” he mentioned.
WHO representative Dr. Kazadi Mulombo Walter ably represented by State Coordinator Dr. Mayana Sunusi Abubakar has similarly emphasized that Kano state is expected to train 5,000 Frontline health workers in the state through the effort of the state and federal government in various primary health care units.
“You cannot succeed in covering universal health coverage without having a well qualified health workers who provide the general service to the people and, achieving universal health coverage without primary health care is like something impossible,” he affirmed.
He, on behalf of World Health Organization congratulated Kano State Government; promising to support the process particularly to ensure that the training meet its standard based on the guidelines by the federal ministry of health.
