The Bauchi state government, Wednesday, said it was ready to partner with nurses and midwives in the area of scientific research for the training and retraining of nurses and midwives working in the state-owned health facilities for efficient services to the people.
The state deputy governor, Mohammed Auwal Jatau, said this while declaring open the Nurses and Midwives North East Zonal Scientific Conference, held at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
The deputy governor observed that, the importance of nurses and midwives’ profession could not be over emphasized, considering their critical role in the delivery of healthcare services to the citizens, hence the need for the government to maintained a good working relationship with nurses and midwives association and other health professions in the state.
He told the participants that, in Bauchi state, the administration of Governor Bala Mohammed, as a health-friendly government, is doing its best to ensure that state owned health institutions function effectively, saying through the efforts, the state owned Aliko Dangote College of Nursing Science Bauchi has been accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to commence ND/HND in Nursing in which the programme has since commenced.
Jatau, who said similarly, the Bill and Melinda College of Health Technology Ningi has also been granted approval to commence new programmes, noted that all these efforts were geared towards tackling and overcoming the challenges of human resources in the health sector.
He said part of the ongoing efforts to address shortage of human resources in health facilities is the approval by the state government for the employment of 1,313 health workers across different cadres.
