Institutions critical to my administration’s health reform, says Edo gov

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8 years ago

EDO State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has maintained that health institutions in the state, such as the School of Health Technology and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, were critical to the health reform plans of his administration.

The governor, according to a statement made available to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, John Mayaki, noted that the curriculum of the school of health technology would be reviewed “so that the students of the institution would be trained and be abreast of modern advance health technology as well as being able to compete with their counterparts world over.”

Obaseki, who called for a meeting with the school authority on Tuesday, directing the management to put to the school’s challenges in writing, said: “We need to sit down and put down the problems in the school and discuss them so we can quickly get the school reopened. This school is very critical to our administration health reform.”

At the School of Nursing and Midwifery, where the governor had also gone to inspect the institution’s facilities, he maintained that the non-accreditation of the institution would be addressed, just as he promised that his administration would ensure the state of facilities in the institutions was improved upon.

The Assistant Director of Nursing in the school, Mrs. Alex Enunwaonye, who received the governor and his entourage, said that the school was not in session because its accreditation had been withdrawn.

While speaking at the School of Health Technology, the governor said: “We will review your school curriculum so that it will be in tune with what is attainable in modern health technology training and practices.”

We will make sure that the state of the hostel is improved, while we will do something about the clinic next week.

“We will also get the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Council to come and build a health centre in the school and look into the issue of your school fees you complained about,” he said.

The Vice Principal of the State School of Health Technology, Mrs. Tracy Omorogieva who conducted the governor on inspection round the various facilities in the school said that present student population was 250.

She also lamented the non-functionality of the school health centre, lack of rooms in the hostel for students as well as infrastructure decay.