Training, Deployment Of Nurses Will Improve Quality Healthcare Delivery — NGO

Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), a Non-Government Organisation (NGO), has said the quality of healthcare provided to patients would improve if nurses and other care providers are trained and deployed appropriately. 

This was made known in a statement by Toyin Saraki, WBFA founder and president, during the Lagos Health Service Commission’s 13th Annual Nurses Scientific Conference.

The conference which was organised to enlighten nurses on the new trends in the profession was titled ‘Nurses: A voice to lead, invest in nursing and respect rights to secure global health".

The president who is the inaugural Global Health Ambassador for the World Health Organisation Foundation maintained that quality training and proper placement of nurses, midwives and other health workers were necessary to ensure Universal Health Coverage is achieved by 2030.

‘‘The WHO estimates that an additional nine million nurses and midwives are needed if the world is to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030,” she said.

Wife of Lagos State, Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, also speaking at the event, lauded nurses for their persistence and their services to the people of Lagos State. 

“Nurses are resilient and dynamic. Sadly, we need to go back to the drawing board to see why there is a high rate of brain drain in the sector. I commend the nursing practitioners and thank all nurses on behalf of the citizens of Lagos State,” she said.

Another important speaker at the conference, Prof. Florence Adeyemo of the Faculty of Nursing Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, noted the importance of practice-based research in providing quality healthcare to patients.

The foundation donated the sum of N1m to support the education and training of nurses, Punch reports.