Director
General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta
Edu yesterday said she met Primary Health Care Under one roof rating in CRS at
15% but has improved it to 93% and must hit the 100% mark in next 6 months. She
said the only way we can be effective in improving the lots of our people is to
be at the field carrying out spot checks, doing supportive supervision and
improving capacity of workers, as we improve their facilities.
She called on
staff and partners of the agency to strengthen their supportive supervision by
making supervision of healthcare facilities around their vicinity a daily
routine as it will help strengthen some anomalies and improve health workers
performance in low resource settings.
She said
Supportive supervision promotes quality at all levels of health system by
strengthening relationships within the system through prompt identification and
resolution of problems among others.
Dr Edu noted
that at the last National Council of Health Meeting it was agreed that every
State Primary Healthcare Agency should create Local Government Health Authority
that will ensure Health workers performance are checked as well as create a
health system strengthening structure at Local government areas .
The DG said
she is certain the Agency will bring sanity to Primary Healthcare in Cross
River State while assuring that the Governor of Cross River State Sen. Ben Ayade
and the Deputy Governor, Prof Ivara Esu is working so hard with key
stakeholders to ensure that Immunization steering committee meeting is held and
key revitalization is achieved.
She lauded
UNICEF and other development partners for their support to the hosting of the
technical working group meetings.
Also speaking,
Dr Ojo Muyiwa of World Health Organisation (WHO) said Primary Healthcare under
one roof is to ensure Human resource and Workforce domicile in the Agency
receive proper direction on their roles. Furthermore working on performance
management system to effect performance of healthcare workers in such a way
that the will be reward for best primary healthcare facility, best staff of the
PHC and the best PHC Coordinator etc
He said WHO
will be working with the Human Resource Unit/Admin to ensure they build
capacity among the workers.
Dr Ana
Director Primary Health Care was on ground and read the terms of reference for
the TWG. Other partners like UNICEF representative and FHi360 were present PHC
Doctors and PHC Coordinators of Calabar south and Municipal, reps from other
MDAs.
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