Yobe gov’t holds orientation session for 196 newly engaged health technicians (Photos)
Story from Sa’adatu MAINA, Damaturu
As part of efforts to prepare 196 newly employed health technicians by Yobe State Government to work as public health workers in various health facilities across the state, the Yobe State Ministry of Health through the State Hospitals Management Board held an orientation session for the new entrants.
The event which took place at the premises of Saving One Million Lives Programme at the State Specialist Hospital Complex in Damaturu, and was organised to educate the health professionals on the civil service rules and regulations governing the conduct of public health workers in the state and to also orient them on the technicalities involved in carrying out their official duties as public health workers in various health facilities in line with the ethics of their noble profession.
Recall that Yobe State Government under the current administration of His Excellency, Governor Mai Mala Buni, recently approved the appointment of 196 health technicians to work as health workers in primary and secondary health facilities across the state.
The 196 healthcare professionals employed comprised of dental technicians, pharmacy technicians, health information management officers and laboratory technicians among others.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Executive Secretary of Yobe State Drugs and Medical Consumables Management Agency (YODMA), Pharmacist Abdul-Aziz Garba Muhammad, congratulated them for being engaged as health workers by Yobe State Government.
Pharmacist Abdul’aziz Garba Muhammad said, “After this orientation, it is very important for you to know what to do as public health workers.
“This is a forum for you to acquaint yourselves with the knowledge and technicalities involved in carrying out your official assignment”, he added.
Speaking further, he said that “This is an opportunity that comes once in a lifetime, I therefore urged you to be very hardworking and dedicated to your official responsibilities”.
In his goodwill message, the State Programme Manager, Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML-PforR), Yobe State, Dr Babagana Abba, while congratulating the newly employed 196 health technicians said, “Your attitude and characters will determine the success of your work and how far you can excel in the work you do.
“You have to behave in a responsible way and you should always be kind to your clients while on official duties.”
The Yobe SOML-PforR State Programme Manager also charged them to be hardworking and dedicated as public health workers in the state.
Delivering his opening remark, the Commissioner for Health and Human Services Yobe State, Dr Muhammad Lawan Gana, who was represented at the event by the Executive Secretary of Yobe State Hospitals Management Board, Dr Musa Muhammad Baba, congratulated the new health technicians for being successfully engaged by the Yobe State Government as health workers.
He said “health care service delivery is one of the most important aspects of Governor Mai Mala Buni’s administration in line with his health policy agenda and is also among the top priorities of the Yobe State Government under the current administration in the state”.
According to the commissioner, the government of Yobe State included health care service delivery as one of its top priority in order to ensure that affordable and quality health care services is being provided in an effective and efficient manner.
He also encouraged them to be hardworking staff and to be dedicated to their official duties as public health workers working to save lives.
“It is very important for you to know your job description as health technicians working in health facilities and I am using this opportunity to warn you against engaging yourselves in unethical practices”.
“The Yobe State Ministry of Health and its implementing agencies would also not tolerate the habit of late coming to work by anyone of you.
“In the whole of the state, it is only in the State Ministry of Health and its implementing agencies that health professionals from the state are usually engaged after graduation from their various citadel of learning and that there is no where you will find such good gesture,” the Commissioner said.
He thanked Governor Mai Mala Buni for finding it worthy to employ new health professionals to work as health technicians in the various health facilities across the state and also commended him for his giant strides in the health sector and other sectors in the state.
Emphasising routine monitoring and supervision of health facilities in the state by Dr Yusuf Bukar Ngamdu’s led-committee on standards, quality and regulations, Dr Muhammad Lawan Gana told the newly employed health technicians that they would be placed under regular supervision when on official duty and that anyone found wanting would be dealt with according to law.
“The sky is your limit in this noble health profession, but it depends on your hardwork, commitments and dedication as public health workers”, Dr Lawan Gana further stated.
The orientation lecture was delivered by the Director Human Resource Management and the Director Medical Services from the State Hospitals Management Board respectively.
In his closing remark, the Executive Secretary of Yobe State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr Babagana Kundi Machina said, “It is because of the importance attached to the health of the citizens of the state that the state governor in his wisdom decided to employ the 196 health technicians inspite of the scarce resources”.
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