Governor Simon Lalong has tasked the
National Association of perioperative nurses of Nigeria (NAPON) to do away with
unprofessional human errors which has attributed to countless loss of human
lives in the medical practice.
Speaking at 16th annual scientific
conference Plateau 2016 with theme” patients safety in the operating room”
represented by the commissioner of health ,Dr. Kunden Kamshak Deyin at the Hill
station Hotel, Jos , Lalong said Plateau state government has been placed on
red alert on the incident on polio and lassa fever with no record of any
patients in the hospital.
He promised to enhance qualitative
health care delivery in plateau by identifying the basic practice that can
guarantee human safety through renovation of five hospitals across the state.
Lalong challenged NAPON to embarking
on constant research to meet up the global challenges of medical tourism in the
nursing profession.
The governor revealed that 2 cases
of Lassa fever was identified in Riyom and one student of university of
Jos all have been treated and discharge .
National Chairman ,NAPON ,Comrade
Adeyeni Abdul-lateef Babatunde Called on improve their members welfare to help
ameliorating the acute shortage of perioperative manpower ,training and
retraining of members of perioperative nursing subspecialisties ,replacement of
obsolete equipment and surgical instruments with moderns ones .
He advised government to renovate
and upgrading of our operating theatres to be compare favourably with what is
obtainable in other surgical centres and to handle complex surgical cases and
to prevent medical /surgical tourism .
“we also appeal to His Excellency
and our commissioner for health in plateau state to implement the payments of
relatively on call duty allowance to all our members in this state and to
effect their promotion as at when due to serve as morale booster to attract
them to put in their best in area of productivity”,he added.
The
leadership of NAPON congratulates the leadership of NANNM ,Nigerian Nurses and
midwives on the long awaited unified scheme of service that had been ratified
and approved by the NCE ,he stressed.
Babatude reiterated perioperative
nurses all over Nigeria brainstorm on ways of improving our standards of
practice in our respective operating rooms towards ensuring increased patients
satisfaction through quality surgical Nursing care .
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