By Rauf Oyewole
A coalition of civil society organisations in Bauchi State, Health System Strengthening Cluster HSSC with focus on Integrated Supportive Supervision (ISS) to strengthen the health care facilities has said that public health care centres are in dilapidated condition over lack of deliberate supervision.
The Cluster of CSOs being funded by USAID and Palladium to strengthen healthcare system said that accessing quality health care services is already out of pockets of most Nigerians, hence the need for government of Bauchi state to fund public hospitals.
Speaking yesterday during a brief event tagged: “Peer Learning Session” for other cluster organisations, the team Lead and Executive Director of Better Life Restoration Initiative (BERI), Nkem Ogbonna, lauded Bauchi for achieving a budget line but tasked the government on release of fund allocated for the supervision of the facilities.
Nkem said that: “If you look at the difference between public and private sectors, you will realise that it is just the supervision. Government have resources to hire qualified hands and sophisticated equipment but when this is not well supervised they are left in jeopardy.
“Among the four state where we are working, three of them –Sokoto, Kebbi and Ebonyi did not have budget line for ISS, only Bauchi did but it has not been releasing fund.
“We are also advocating for an integrated approach to such supervision. We are bringing private businesses owners to be part of this ISS. We want a situation that if a philanthropist or organisation is willing to assist government could properly channel it towards the most pressing needs of our people.”
He said that the CSOs have engaged some of the big time private organisations to channel their corporate social responsibilities to the development of health sector. “Many of them are ready and have asked the government to provide details of what they wanted,” he said.
Nkem added that the supportive supervision would have a data base of inventory that every facility have and do not possess. “Anyone can easily get information of which hospital lacks drugs, syringe and other equipment. It will have details of when last the personnel were trained,” he said.
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