OSHIA Holds Training for Osun Primary Healthcare Workers

By Tomi Lala

The Osun State Health Insurance Agency (OSHIA) has organized a one-day training program for Primary Health Care Workers in the state, in a bid to let teach them how to be conscientious in their practices.

Speaking at the training program on Tuesday at Halatria Hotel, in Osogbo, the state capital, OSHIA Executive Secretary, Dr. Rasaq Akindele explained that the agency has already made effort to assess each health centres across the state by checking their records and inspecting their operations.

He, also re-asssured that the state Governor is very much conscientious about the health of his citizens.

He said, ” This training is to let people know that they have to be conscientious about what they do. Recently, we went around the health centers to look at their records to inspect their operations and we found out that they actually fell below standard.

“We brought them together to interact with them and to retrain them on their expectations to patients or people who come to them especially in terms of record keeping so that one can be able to plan appropriately.

“The Governor is very conscientious about the health of the people. Apart from us renovating, doing interpretation and others, we still have to still go there and monitor them i.e monitor the state facility individually so that we can ensure that people who go there get what they want from these facilities.

Akindele, also added that after the training, he expect the health workers to improve more on their professionalism and their output towards their patients.

“The primary health care workers are the main target. We hope that after this training there will be great output in terms of patient treatment and patient satisfaction.

“They got our message and they also fed us back about the challenges that they are having which we would find a way of solving it”, he stated.

In an interview with our correspondent, Dare Adeoye from Vault Consulting Firm disclosed that the training is majorly for health workers at the local health care centers, in order to build synergy.

“We have started the program to reach out to the health care workers in the local, health care centers to build the synergy between them and WCD, the one from council members.

“We want them to come together so that they can work together and bring out the best in the package of Osun Health Insurance Scheme.

“We want them to advocate more, people in the lower communities, they will also monitor and evaluate activities that’s being carried out or implemented in this Primary Health Care, so that we will know when they have challenges, so that we will be able to approach it on time.

“This particular one is supposed to be for Osun West senatorial district, all the health care workers in Primary Health care centres are here”, he stated.

One of the health workers Mrs Ajala Victoria said all participants gained a lot from the training, and they are happy for the privilege given to them to come together and pour out their minds.