Abia Assembly intervenes as nurses, community health workers wage supremacy war 

Abia State House of Assembly has intensified efforts to reconstruct bid and stableness successful the section authorities wellness authorities pursuing a enactment tussle betwixt assemblage wellness practitioners and nurses.

The involution followed a petition submitted to the Abia Assembly by the Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria concerning their request for enactment power successful the wellness assemblage of the section authorities areas.

Presenting a study to the House, Chairman of the House of Assembly Committee connected Health, Emeka Obioma Tommy explained that assemblage wellness practitioners were trained and licensed by the Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria to present and negociate community-based wellness services.

He besides said nurses were regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria with a superior mandate successful objective and organization care.

The committee chairman, who noted that assemblage wellness practitioners and nurses are indispensable to healthcare delivery, however, pointed retired that their training, predisposition and statutory roles disagree significantly.

Tommy, who observed that the assignment of heads is based solely connected nonrecreational qualifications, seniority, years of work and availability of staff, besides reported that assemblage wellness officers presently caput astir superior healthcare facilities successful the Abia LGAs.