Edo Govt Partners JHPIEGO, USAID In Training Frontline Healthcare Workers

By The9JaTREND

The Edo State Government through its Ministry of Health has collaborated with the John Hopkins Programme for International Education in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (JHPIEGO) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in organising a workshop to train frontline workers on improving the quality of maternal and child healthcare in the State.

Prof. Obehi Akoria, the Hon. Commissioner for Health, while appreciating USAID on behalf of the State Government, admonished the participants to see the training as a sure way of building their capacity for effective service delivery in their places of primary assignments, adding that it is a rare privilege for USAID to bring the workshop to Benin City.

Prof. Akoria appealed to the partners to help to monitor the effectiveness of the workshop in order to achieve the desired goal in maternal and child healthcare delivery system as well as to build knowledge and skills of participants on how to conduct quality improvement projects in well selected learning sites, using the Quality Improvement (QI) process in the State.

According to the Training Schedule, the workshop was organised to educate participants on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) quality of care, the Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) framework for improving quality care in health facility and to build skills of the State and Local Government Area managers to oversee start-up and continuous support of high level of care across clinical mentoring and peer-to-peer learning.

Also speaking, a Scientific Officer I of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), Mr. Aminu Selisu Adamu, stated that the quality of care is very important in the healthcare delivery system. He said their objective is to work with the State in taking ownership and prioritizing Maternal and Child healthcare delivery in the State.

Dr. Victor Fatimehin, a Public Health Physician, while presenting a lecture on “Strategy on quality improvement of care and quality of care,” stated that to achieve improvement of quality healthcare in the State, there will always be a need for workshops like this for continuous training of healthcare workers for effective service delivery.