A university lecturer, Professor Christopher Taiwo Oluwadare has suggested urgent measures to be put in place in order to record accelerated progress on health care delivery in Nigeria.
Part of the measures advocated by Oluwadare is to allow pubic health facilities in the country register births . The don also urged relevant authorities to expand the scope of public health care to be able to respond to initial chronic disease and manage diagnosis intervention. Oluwadare also urged on improved attractiveness to public maternal and child Health Care.
The University Lecturer stated these on Tuesday while delivering the 93rd Inaugural lecture of the Ekiti state University,EKSU, Ado-Ekiti.
The lecture was titled: WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH YOU?I DON’T KNOW! A SOCIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS WITHOUT END.
The professor of medical sociology stressed that Birth registration should be allowed at the public health facility rather than with National Population Commission.
“ it will be a sound strategy to allow public health facilities located in all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria to register births and make it mandatory for all under-5 deaths to be registered at the health facilities. This will go a long way to redirect attention of households to the importance of public health care centres, primary or secondary”
Oluwadare also suggested that “Pregnant mothers or nursing mothers must be attracted through improved friendliness of the health facility enviroment. The high maternal mortality rate of about 30 percent of the global maternal death can be halted as an emergency procedure when National Primary Health care Agency adds provision of financial incentive to every delivery in its facilities across the nation and paid directly to the mother.
“ Chronic diseases are increasingly breaking every socio-economic barriers. Incidences now reach rural,urban,rich,poor, white collar, blue collar and no collar workers. Teenagers and youth have been diagnosed of diabetes,kidney disease, high blood pressure and cancers. The high cost and burdens of treatment of these diseases are troubling yet without lasting cure.
“These chronic diseases demand comprehensive medical intervention for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. There is a need to expand the scope of PHCs to respond to initial disease and also management phase after diagnosis and specialist intervention”
The EKSU Vice Chancellor professor Joseph Ayodele who congratulated the inaugural lecturer said the don has done ‘wonderfully well’.
“He has done a lot on application of sociology to medical practices, in various perspectives of health metaphysical, cultural perspectives. We all have responsibility for our health. To be healthy begin with you “.
The VC who added that the the lecture provided recommendation to health prosperity in Nigeria said “as University, we shall continue to give opportunity to all for academic activities”