HMB PS tasks health workers on quality service
By Kemi Olatunde
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Permanent Secretary, Ondo State Hospitals Management Board(HMB), Dr. Niran Ikuomola has called on health workers to put in their best in delivering quality health care to the people of the state so as to improve the state health sector.
He made the call while speaking with The Hope while paying an inspection visit to the Neuro Psychiatric Specialist Hospital, Akure.
According to him, there can only be an improvement in the sector if workers play active role by being hardworking and dedicated to their duties.
He noted that patients can only be satisfied with the service provided when health workers become more committed in their duty posts.
While commending the staff for their punctuality as shown in their agenda registers, he stressed the need for improvement, both in infrastructure and services provided.
Calling the attention of the hospital’s management to the vocational department of the hospital, he noted that the department which has been put in place for the use of patients, should be expanded saying ” more so that a qualified occupational therapist has been employed, there is need to provide the facilities that will allow him perform optimally. “
Ikuomola who commended the management for being up and doing in making the environment conducive for patients advised that water supply should be made available in all the departments, especially the clinical areas saying ” storex should be installed in various areas for regular supply of water.”
Stressing the need for the hospital laboratory to be well equipped in a spacious environment, he reiterated government’s commitment to ensuring that qualitative health care delivery is guaranteed.
He said: “there is need for the expansion and equipping of the laboratory in order to meet the need of the hospital.
“The hospital has quite a number of patients and various tests are needed for their effective management, thus the laboratory must be well equipped and if we must improve on the level of equipment, we need space to accommodate them,” Ikuomola stressed.
