HEALTH WORKERS UNDER SURVEILLANCE-HEALTH MINISTER

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The Ministry of Health is to set up an Intelligence Unit to monitor and report on the behaviour and attitudes of workers at the various public healthcare facilities across the country. The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, who announced this, explained further, that the initiative aims to bring under the microscope for the appropriate measures against bad working attitude of the health staff especially nurses and midwifes in attending to patients and clients at their facilities. 'I will get young people to be trained by the National Security, but they are not BNI... and i believe that will bring some sanity in the system, the Minister hinted.

Mr. Agyeman Manu was addressing staff of the Nursing and Midwifery Council at this year’s Mid-Year Performance Review Session at Nsuta in the Sekyere Central district of the Ashanti region. The three-day event was a platform for the management and staff of the Council to evaluate their performance in relation to their set targets for the period under review so as to identify the achievements, challenges while devising new and better strategies towards attainment of the set goals for the second half of this year. 

The Health Minister noted that setting up of the Health Intelligence Unit will among others objectives, dealt with such negative excesses in the healthcare delivery processes as baby theft as reported in some of the hospitals, uncultured attitudes of some health workers towards the sick as well as abuse of the system. "What happened at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, do you remember, still exists in the health facilities", he lamented. 


 Mr. Agyemang Manu said, in line with the recently launched five-year National Public Sector Reforms Strategy, there is an urgent need for the Health Ministry and sector agencies to establish a Client Service Unit and develop a Client Charter to offer acceptable level of services to health seekers. Mr. Agyemang Manu disclosed again that the Ministry, in partnership with its collaborators, is working to establish a National Emergency Centre with a Toll-Free number for the coordination and evacuation of patients in a professional manner.

 The initiative, he noted, would be a platform toward addressing what has become known as the ‘no bed syndrome’ in prominent public hospitals. The Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Felix Nyanteh, said the Council, during the period under review, made far reaching changes and laid the foundation for a future of orderly, sustainable and evidence-based growth. 

The Council, Mr. Nyanteh said, has also undertaken an ambitious range of structural decisions that are transforming nurses and midwives’ service delivery to clients. He was happy about that the Council has become the first in West Africa and third in Africa to conduct Online Licensing examination held earlier month.

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