Ondo State Ministry of Health has is to collaborate with the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo( UNIMED) for the take-off of community nursing and midwifery programmes of two years.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Ajaka, stated this during a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of the UNIMED, Prof Adesegun Fatusi, on Tuesday in Akure.
Ajaka decried the blow the migration of the nurses and midwives had dealt on the health sector all over the country.
He said there was need to proffer a lasting solution while also informing that the nursing and the midwifery council had given approval for the training of 150 students of community nurses and midwives.
The commissioner said the requirements for application for the training was a minimum of four credits compulsorily in English language, mathematics, biology , physics or chemistry in the Ordinary Level examination at not more than two sittings.
Ajaka explained that the programme would be a two-year programme and would commence in March 2023.
According to him, the programme is primarily an intervention programme for human resources in the primary health care system.
In her words, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Pharmacist Folukemi Aladenola, said that the intervention was important in order to save the system and the future.
Aladenola promised that the ministry would continue to partner with the medical university in providing a well-rounded health sector in the state.
She said that the forms for the programmes were available on line on www//ondocnm.com.ng with the payment of N10,000 for the application form
Also speaking, the Director Nursing Services of the ministry, Dr Alice Ogundele, explained that the programmes had had the state governor’s approval and that of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
Ogundele said that venue for the programme would be the midwifery section of the former state School of Nursing and Midwifery in Akure which now belongs to University of Medical Sciences.
She explained that the human resources that would train the community nurses would come from both the Ministry of Health and the University community.
Responding, Prof. Fatusi lauded the collaboration, saying the University Community was eager to partner with the Ministry on Community Nursing and Midwifery training.
”This programme is for impacting the lives of our people especially the women folks in the state. What you are asking for is possible and we are eager to collaborate,” he said.
Fatusi, therefore, requested for more partnership in the sector, particularly in the aspect of health research in the state.
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