The Ondo State Government has directed all private health facilities in the state to register and validate their facilities, saying the government is ready to sanction any unregistered facilities working in the state.
The Permanent Secretary of the State’s Ministry of Health, Dr Adeniran Ikuomola , made this known during a meeting with the private health practitioners on Thursday in Akure.
Ikuomola asked all private health facilities in the state to register and validate their facilities with the Department of Hospital services in the state.
He explained that the step was necessary to eradicate quackery and enhance sanity in the private practice.
The permanent secretary reiterated that the ministry was ready to enforce the rules to moderate the practices of the private health practitioners to ensure compliance while emphasizing that the action was mainly to engender a sane health system rendering quality services to people of the state.
“We want to rely on you to help us regulate the system and collaborate with the government to ensure a healthy society and to achieve Universal Health Coverage in our state.
“We are partners in progress, the government cannot do it alone; we need you to give us advice that will help us build the system that will help all of us,” he said.
Speaking on quackery. Ikuomola warned that the state would not condone any private hospital training nurses and said that anyone caught would face the full wrath of the law.
The permanent secretary, therefore, requested the private health practitioners to provide the ministry with their details.
Responding,Dr Saliu Oyelami, the Chairman of the Association of Private Health Practitioners in Ondo State, said that the association did not have any objections to the action of the government as it would help in sanitizing the private practice in the state.
Oyelami told the permanent secretary that all member of the association were fully licensed and registered.
He urged the government to bring back the Colllege of Nursing in Akure in order to have easy access to qualified nurses.b
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