Kwara government pledges war against medical quackery
The Kwara Government has pledged to get rid of the state quackery in the health sector. The last administration registered health facilities without due process to check for quackery.
Dr Raji Razaq, the state Commissioner for Health, said at the state’s maternal, perinatal death surveillance and response stakeholders meeting on Saturday in Ilorin, that the present administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has warned quacks in the health sector to leave the state.
“Quackery in health sector is prevalent n Kwara North. We will no more condone such mediocrity. We will revisit the licensed facilities and do the needful, so as to raise the standard in the system.
“The state will not take excuses from anybody on issues of quackery,” he warned.
The commissioner appealed to health practitioners to support the government in order to bring sanity in the system.
According to him, some medical practitioners don’t organise capacity building for staffers going against the ethics of the profession.
The present administration met many moribund primary health facilities and has since commenced massive infrastructural renovation.
“The first step is to renovate infrastructure and equip health facilities and also capacity building for staff.
“The government has recruited about 80 healthcare workers and recruitment is still ongoing.
“Additional midwives have been recruited and deployed to primary healthcare facilities across the local government areas of the state,” he said.
However, he revealed the innovative new strategy of engaging and training people within villages of communities to identify those with health challenges and investigate where the problems were and alert the necessary authorities.
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