18th October, 2017
Dr Babatunde Ipaye, the Ogun Commissioner for Health, said on Wednesday that the Nigeria Nursing Council (NNC) had given full accreditation to the five schools of nursing in the state.
Ipaye who disclosed this when the Ogun State Assembly Committee on Health paid an oversight visit to the ministry in Abeokuta said that the accreditation would increase their capacity for training.
The commissioner told the committee that before now, the schools of nursing had partial accreditation.
He said the ministry embarked on massive restructuring of the infrastructure in the institutions to ensure that they were fully accredited.
“Before now, the school’s had partial accreditation. Now that the schools have been accredited, it will increase our capacity for training.
“We will put more equipment into our library and increase the number of students, and this will in turn increase our revenue for next year,” he said.
Ipaye said that the ministry received N197 million for capital projects this year and generated N39 million between January and August which was 40 per cent of its target for the year.
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The commissioner said the ministry had continued to enjoy the support of its partners in the provision of qualitative and efficient health care delivery.
He said the ministry had also sealed the illegal and substandard health facilities in the state to protect the people from the menace of quackery.
The committee Chairman, Mr Akinpelu Aina, commended the ministry for getting the full accreditation for the programmes in the schools.
Aina urged the ministry to ensure that it made provision for the feeding of children in hospitals in the state in its 2018 budget.
He further enjoined the ministry to introduce a bill that would guarantee six months maternity leave to women and gave the assurance that the house would pass it.