For adequate capturing of maternal death in Ondo state,
there is a need for private-public partnership in the state.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Dayo Adeyanju made the
assertion during the sensitization of private health care workers on the need
for reporting of maternal deaths held in Akure. Adeyanju said it is necessary
to incorporate private health care providers to be able to have accurate data
of maternal death in the state
.
“For data into maternal death in the state to be accurate
and correct, there is the need to collaborate with private healthcare
providers, ”he stated.
The commissioner posited that there is need to sensitive the
private sector as government cannot do it alone. He said it is the collective
responsibility of all and sundry to reduce maternal death in the state.
The commissioner added that the state
government is looking forward to working together with the private health care
givers to be able to have a mutual benefit and subsequently best goals. While
commending government’s health programmes, the private health care providers
led by Dr. Ade Tade urged government to provide more logistics and financial
incentives to private hospitals in the state to enable them extend government’s
good health programmes to the people.
Also, the Chairman of the confidential Enquiry into Maternal
Deaths in Ondo State (CEMDOS) and Chief Medical Director of Mother and Child
Hospital, Akure, Dr. Lawal Oyeneyi lectured the gathering.
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