Nurses charged to be responsive health care providers
She spoke at the 42nd National Florence Nightingale Trophy Speech contest, aimed at stimulating and encouraging creative thinking in student nurses in the country.
Dr Delano who remarked that many women still lacked access to healthcare, stated that the profession’s vision should remain being more responsive to healthcare delivery of individuals, families and the general society.
She declared: “we know healthcare is not accessible to a lot of women, but when it is, we need to ask ourselves if it is really making a difference.”
While charging nurses to see it as a privileged to handle lives of people, she urged that the yearly competition goes beyond the contest.
Dr Delano charged: “let the knowledge, the information that this context has made available make a difference in the way you act and spur you on in your determination to improve yourself, the standard of the profession and to rid the nation of its ills.”
Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi who spoke through his deputy, Chief Moses Adeyemo, reinstated the commitment of his government to the health of the citizenry.
Senator Ajimobi, highlighting a number of policies and initiatives of his government has to reform and reinvigorate health sector, said “we regard good health as an inalienable right of every individual and we have an unremitted commitment to effective and affordable healthcare delivery in the state.”
He said more than 200,000 people have benefitted from its free surgical operation, adding that recruitment of different cadres of health personnel to complement the existing staff strength in the hospitals across the state had commenced.
The governor announced that approval had being given for the construction of primary health care centres in 65 wards in the state with compliment of equipments that will meet the challenges posed by the free health mission of his administration.
Earlier, Oyo state Health commissioner, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, who stated that the tenets of healing and leadership of Florence Nightingale was worthy of emulation by all nurses, urged that her legacy be entrenched by always ensuring she remained their role model.
