Date: 2018-04-24

Over 100 health workers from the 16 local government areas of Kwara state have benefited from a two-day intensive training organised by the state civil service commission.

Speaking during the training in Ilorin, the state capital, the Chairman of the commission, Hajia Sarah Adebayo accused some local government health workers of lakadascal attitude towards their work.

Adebayo said sucj attitude will no longer be tolerated from them and urged them to be of good behaviour to patients in the course of their work.

The training workshop according to her was on the role of health care workers in promoting a sustainable health care delivery service at the grassroot level. "We organise this training in fulfillment of our promise of training and re-training of our local government workers so as to change their attitude of non challant attitude towards work and the people they are attending to.

"Last month we held a workshop to sharpen the capacity of our revenue officers, accountants and agric officers in an effort to promote capacity in revenue generation at the grassroots in order to achieve sustainable source of funding to give autonomy to our local government areas.

"We are focusing our attention to the health services provider because health is wealth. Also, the greater population at the grassroots are those that are engaged in economic activities. It is therefore our concern o give enabling environment to them so as to be active in socio economic activities.

"The training is an attempt to resharpen the knowledge of our health personnel for them to be updated with modern techniques of handlinggg health services. The reason for our focus no health delivery is simply because we want a positive change in our ways of doing things and say no to non,challant attitude," Adebayo said.

She also urged them to pay attention to every aspect of the training because it will be used during their promotion examination.

Also speaking is the Executive Secretary of Primary Health Care in Kwara, Dr. Patience Folorunso who disclosed that the state government is not paying them their due despite the fact that they asked them not to charge people.

She however charged participants never to put their mind solely on monetary gain, their impact be felt, not to let personal worries follow them to work among others.