The Federal Authorities is intensifying efforts to reinforce infrastructure and manpower within the well being sector.
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The Minister of State for Well being and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, made this recognized on the sixty fifth Anniversary and Gala Night time of the Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (NSP), in Abuja on Thursday.
Alausa, represented by the Chief Medical Director pf the Nationwide Hospital, Prof. Muhammad Mahmud.
He mentioned the federal authorities was dedicated to funding the well being sector whereas additionally making a conducive workspace for well being staff.
He recommended the NSP for being instrumental in rendering environment friendly companies by means of apply, coaching, analysis, collaborations, advocacies, and coverage growth.
He known as for public non-public partnership within the well being sector to enrich federal authorities’s efforts in constructing a greater well being sector for the nation.
“Your efforts have considerably contributed to the general enchancment in healthcare, enhancing the standard of life for numerous people.
“I commend your institution of the Postgraduate Physiotherapy School (PPC), which has produced over 70 specialists in numerous physiotherapy specialties.
“These expert professionals have augmented the healthcare workforce, complementing authorities efforts to enhance healthcare supply.
“The federal authorities is intensifying efforts to reinforce infrastructure and manpower within the well being sector,” he mentioned
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The keynote Speaker on the event, Prof. Sylvester Igaww, appealed to medical practitioners to proceed to enhance themselves on new expertise that Synthetic Intelligence (AI) has introduced into the sector.
Igaww, additionally the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Coal Metropolis College, Enugu, spoke on the theme: “Physiotherapy apply in Nigeria: the Previous, Current, and the Approach ahead”.
He pressured that ‘Japa Syndrome ‘ was inimical to the well being sector and therefore the necessity to handle the menace.
Additionally, the President of NSP, Dr Oyinlola Odusanya mentioned the society had facilitated the institution of the Postgraduate Physiotherapy School in Nigeria.
This, he mentioned, was a physique saddled with the duty of coaching specialists with experience medical competence to match the calls for of its purchasers within the ever dynamic world.
Odusanya recognized challenges confronted by the society amongst that are the devastating results of brain-drain on the career.
“Over 65 per cent of physiotherapists produced in Nigeria, apply overseas. Within the final three years, over 2000 physiotherapists left the shore of our nation, with lower than 4000 Physiotherapists left within the nation to handle over 200 million inhabitants.
“This growth weakened us as a bunch and when it comes to coaching, and diminished the variety of skilled Physiotherapist to serve our numerous institutions,” he mentioned.
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