A committee set up to assess the resource status and
performance of selected Federal Tertiary Hospitals submitted its report on
Monday in Abuja.
The report which was submitted to the Minister of State
for Health, Princess Funke Adedoyin, was compiled in three volumes and
contained the findings and recommendations of the committee.
Submitting the report, the Chairman of the committee, Dr
Dan Iya, said that it gathered data on patients care and management, service
output, internal management and external linkages.
Others were human resource management, equipment and
infrastructure, finance and accounting, client and community view on the
hospitals.
He said that the findings of the committee would assist
the federal government through the Ministry of Health to restore the federal
tertiary hospitals to the capacity and status stipulated by their statutory
mandates.
�It is worthy to note that majority of the general care
hospitals are not provided a level of tertiary care expected of the tertiary
centres,�� he said.
�Investigations such as laboratory tests and radio
diagnosis are limited and surgical procedures are low for several reasons
that are stated in the report,�� he said.
Responding, the minister thanked the committee for
completing the assignment in a reasonable time.
�I am happy to note that your assessment was
comprehensive as it examined vital perspectives that influence the pattern
and degree of hospital performances,�� she said.
�I will like to assure you that the findings and
recommendations of your committee will be quickly but carefully studied.��
�I promise that we will pay early attention to this
report and implement its recommendations that we may consider appropriate
and feasible,�� she added.
Adedoyin said that the report would enhance the
ministry�s capacity to increase federal government�s subvention to the
health sector, especially the hospitals.
�Government needs to invest the required resources and
efforts in the hospitals to constantly position them appropriately for their
functions,�� she said.
The minister, however, noted that only about one third of
the federal tertiary hospitals were assessed.
Adedoyin noted that there was strong consideration to
extend the assessment to the remaining hospitals to enable the ministry have
a holistic data.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the
committee was set up on Oct. 19, and has a membership of 26.
