Anambra state To Inaugurate Health Facility Monitoring Accreditation Agency

The Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike said, the State government will inaugurate Health Facility Monitoring Accreditation Agency, to eliminate quackery in the health sector.

Dr. Obidike made the statement when Anambra state House of Assembly Committee on Health paid a familiarization visit to the Ministry of Health at the Jerome Udorji, Secretariat in Awka, the state capital.

Dr. Obidike informed the committee that the Agency will be established before the end of this year and it will clamp down on any illegal hospital found operating in Anambra State.

“By God’s grace the Agency will be established before December this year and it will clamp down on illegal hospital found operating in the state.’’

According to him, the Agency when established will amongst others set the required standards for the operations of public and private health facilities.

“The establishment of the agency will enable the public to know well registered hospitals and desist from patronizing quacks.’’

He appealed to the Anambra State House of Assembly to assist the Ministry to achieve it by giving it a legal backing.

“We are also making efforts to have a Quality Laboratory Assurance Unit with the aim of ensuring that drugs being supplied to the state are of good quality and healthy for consumption.

“I, must commend the House for the role they played during recruitment of no fewer than three hundred health workers into public hospitals across the state.”

Dr. Obidike stressed the need for the House Committee on Health to work for the enactment of Health Insurance Law that will give retirees access to quality healthcare whenever the need arises.

He thanked them for having the interest of their constituents in heart, noting that Gov. Charles Soludo’s led administration is committed to fulfilling all his promises in the health sector.

Earlier, the Chairman of Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Health, Honourable Tony Muobuike while commending the health reforms programme of Governor Chukwuma Soludo expressed the commitment of the Committee to partner the Ministry in actualizing its development goals for the benefit Anambra citizens.

Honourable Muobuike disclosed that the essence of their visit to the Ministry was to identify their challenges and proffer rightful solutions for the ministry to wax stronger.

Dr. Obidike assured that the fruitful collaboration between the health ministry and state house of assembly, would benefit the public as far as healthcare service delivery is concerned in the state.