By Asma’u Ahmad
The Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (HPRBN) has stressed the need for continuous sensitisation of practitioners to reduce maternal mortality rate in Nigeria.
Acting Registrar of the board, Alhaji Mohammed Adebayo, made the assertion at the inauguration of four days training in Minna, which was organised for the practitioners in the North-Central zone, comprising Niger, Kwara, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa states and Abuja.
Alhaji Adebayo said the workshop is tagged: “Save Delivery and Postnatal Care in Primary Healthcare Setting,” was aimed at sensitizing the practitioners on maternal and child health-related issues.
The acting registrar urged the primary healthcare givers to adhere strictly to their professional ethics as they were out to save lives.
Adebayo said that continuous update of members on primary health issues, especially the reduction of maternal mortality rate, would enable them to renew their practicing licences for two years term.
“One of the criteria of issuing license is participating in our workshop. As a participant, you are graded during the training to enable the board to issue you certificate. You cannot get the certificate without being active during the workshop, and you cannotNpractice without the certificate,” he said.
Adebayo said that the board was made up of 85, 000 members across the country, including junior community health extension workers, community health extension workers and community health officers.
Also, a Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, Dr. Magaji Paiko, said that there was need for the workshop since maternal mortality had remained high in tropical sub-Sahara Africa including Nigeria.
Dr. Paiko, spoke on effective management of labour and reproductive right code of professional conduct for community health practitioners in Nigeria.
Newsmen report that a recent UNICEF reports indicated “every single day, Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five year old and 145 women of childbearing age.
