FG Signs Pact To Boost Service In Tertiary Hospitals

The Federal Ministry of Health yesterday witnessed the signing of 2 Memoranda of Understanding betwixt the National Tertiary Health Institutions Standards Committee (NTHIS) and PharmAccess Foundation, Society for Quality successful Healthcare successful Nigeria (SQHN) to fortify standards and amended work transportation successful national tertiary hospitals successful the country.

NTHISC is simply a national authorities assemblage established by the National Health Act 2014 to guarantee precocious standards and compliance successful the nation’s tertiary wellness institutions.
Speaking during the signing ceremonial successful Abuja, the curate of authorities for health, Dr. Iziaq Salako, described the concern arsenic a “new dawn” for Nigeria’s healthcare system, stressing that prime healthcare is the backbone of nationalist development.

He said, “Our national tertiary hospitals indispensable alteration into vibrant hubs of healing and hope, wherever patients not lone person fantabulous aesculapian attraction but are treated with dignity and compassion.”
Represented by the director, wellness planning, probe and statistics, Dr. Kamil Shoretire, the curate said the MoUs were successful enactment with the mandate of the National Health Act 2014 which empowers the NTHISC to acceptable and enforce standards successful tertiary hospitals nationwide.

Salako added that PharmAccess and SQHN bring planetary expertise recognised by the International Society for Quality successful Healthcare (ISQua) which would beryllium combined with section cognition to thrust sustainable reforms.

Chairman of the National Tertiary Health Institutions Standards Committee (NTHISC), Prof. Abiodun Philip, noted that the collaboration would alteration periodic assessments of tertiary hospitals, starring to a performance-based ranking strategy that would uncover the comparative prime of services crossed facilities.

He said the inaugural would not lone amended healthcare transportation but besides assistance reverse aesculapian tourism by ensuring Nigerians tin entree world-class services wrong the country.

“The task of prime betterment successful our tertiary healthcare institutions is enormous, but we stay courageously resolute. With these partnerships, we are assured of achieving enviable results that volition fortify our wellness system,” helium said.

He further disclosed that NTHISC was besides pursuing collaborations with planetary partners to found a nationalist organ donation and transplantation registry, present robotic surgery, and grow oncology services successful Nigeria.

Both PharmAccess and SQHN pledged their committedness to supporting Nigeria successful gathering a much resilient and patient-centered wellness system.

The ceremonial was attended by elder officials of the Ministry, directors of infirmary services, and representatives of spouse organisations