Yakubu Busari
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 .
