Non-Governmental Organization known as Health Workforce Management Activity on Wednesday called for a quality and quantity health workforce in health institutions in Ebonyi state.
The State Human Resources for Health Coordinator of the organization, Pharmacist Uche Ebenezer made the call during the distribution of teaching aids to some health institutions, College of Health Sciences, Ngbo, College of Nursing and Midwifery Mater Hospital, Afikpo, in Afikpo North and Ohaukwu local government areas of Ebonyi state.
Items donated to the institutions includes; Placenta model, vulva, chart, Eye model, Antishock garment, breast model, kidney model, heart model, teeth model, liver model, Adult skull, Lungs, among others.
Mr Ebenezer noted that the state health system was having challenges regarding human resources for health which according to her was not peculiar to the state and that Covid-19 has exposed the need for a lot more of health workers in the health system.
And further said that Health Workforce Management Activity is funded by USAID with its major objective to ensure that the state establish a cost effective well trained health workforce in remote and rural areas.
“So, what we want to do in this activity is to ensure that these health workers are well trained. We are looking at the quality of the health workforce and the quantity of the health workforce. So, the teaching aids have been donated to these health institutions; College of Health Sciences Ngbo and College of Nursing and Midwifery Mater Hospital to help them improve the quality of training of the students the future health workforce and also help improve the processes the tutors go through”, she said.
Ebenezer expressed the hope that the teaching aids will help the students to have practical experience when they go for clinical training in established hospitals and primary health centres.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezuruike who received the teaching aids, commended USAID for all the live touching projects they have been doing in the state.
He said the Health Workforce Management Activity has been very outstanding in bridging all the gaps in the health sector.
He urged the health institutions that benefited from the gesture to make judicial uses of the teaching aids.