Kwara Head of Service tasks Health Workers on quality service delivery

The Kwara Head of Service, Mrs. Susan Oluwole, has urged Healthcare workers to join hands with the  State Government to reposition the  sector for quality service delivery.

Mrs. Oluwole gave the advice at a meeting with Health Management Bureau and all Heads of health facilities to chart a way forward in the State’s Health sector.

The HoS, who deplored the careless attitude of some Healthcare workers to duty, urged them to change  in order to work in concert with the State Government to change the face of health sector, which she said the present administration places premium on.

She particularly singled out the secretaries in the hospitals for blame, criticising them for shirking their responsibility in reporting acts of absenteeism in their respective hospitals, a situation she said sometimes gives the impression of inadequate Healthcare workers.

Mrs. Oluwole , therefore,  enjoined them to live up to their responsibilities, warning that any secretary found to have failed in reporting an absconded officer would be appropriately sanctioned.

According to her, “Late-coming is not acceptable ; neither would absence from duty without genuine and cogent reason be condoned. Whoever is not ready to work on the excuse that the salary is too small should leave the Service. “

Emphasising the importance of health sector in any society, she said;” When we are talking about health sector, we are talking about life. If you kill the bread winner of a family, do you know how many people you have killed? You have razed down a whole family. “

On the roles of Chief Medical Director (CMD), Mrs. Oluwole said the position required high responsibility and urged the CMDs to be serious with the responsibility assigned to them, saying, “If Secretaries  realise that the CMDs will not condone any form of indiscipline, they will sit up. If every head in the hospital will make a commitment to making things work, things will work.”

She promised to roll out some administrative measures and replicate the  SERVICOM at Federal level as part of measures in the State to check the scourge of indiscipline among workers just as she directed the CMDs to, in conjunction with the Health Management Bureau, workout means of checking some of the abnormalities identified in the system.

In his contribution, Director General (DG), Hospital Management Bureau, Dr. Sa’ad Aluko, who described the meeting as a well-deserved one, explained that no amount of salary could equate the services that Healthcare workers render.

Dr. Aluko said they had a duty to serve humanity above anything else ,citing the efforts made by Healthcare workers during the scourge of Covid-19 as example of the selflessness  nature of their work, stressing that against all odds, God had  kept them alive.

“As a Director General, I cannot achieve any success without you because your productivity determines my success,” he concluded.

Some of the Chief Medical Directors who spoke on the occasion commended the HoS for initiating the meeting which they described as first of its kind while also urging her to sustain it, to be able to address some of the challenges facing the health sector.

Mercy Chukwudiebere