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By Asma’u Ahmad
The Federal Government has stressed the need for training and retraining of medical personnel in public and private health institutions in the state.
The Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Health, Dr Minnie Oseji, stated this in a statement on Monday in Asaba, the state capital.
She said that the retraining of medical officers would enable them to update their skills and promote quality healthcare delivery in the state.
The permanent secretary stated that there was the need to have such retraining of medical officers at least once in a year.
She noted that the one-day training on basic life support for healthcare givers held recently in the state was one of government’s programmes to help medical personnel update their skills.
Oseji listed some of the courses included in the training programme as health data management and social mobilisation for health.
“We have chosen this training programme as a priority but because of some challenges, the ministry could not provide for the funding,” she said.
She said that it was because of the challenge that the DELSUTH and the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, organised the training.
