The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Dayo Adeyanju made
this known at a one-day workshop organized for Health workers on operating
ABIYE software in the state.
The workshop which was organized by the Ministry of Health
in collaboration with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) was to
teach the health workers how to work with the laptop and card reader
distributed to them.
The card would be loaded with comprehensive information
about each of the pregnant women that could be accessed by care givers across
the state. The commissioner said the card reader would be attached to
all the laptops that would be given to care givers and that each of the
pregnant women would be issued the residency card that has the Abiye imprints
on it.
According to him,
“The card would contain all relevant data
on each of the pregnant women for them to be able to access care anywhere in
the state.”
“During emergency and critical moments, even if a pregnant
woman is in a state of coma, all what a care giver is expected to do is to
insert the card in the card reader that would be attached to his or her
laptops.
“They will instantly access all information about the
pregnant woman and they would be able to manage her condition effectively”, the
commissioner said.
The commissioner posited that the monitoring and evaluation
officers in each of the centres were being trained on the use of customized
checklist for Abiye.
He said: “They are going to be trained on the software, on
the staff management information system, software for the national strategic
framework in monitoring and evaluating forms which would be loaded in their
laptops.
“With this, we would be able to track our maternal mortality
rate, number of our indigenes and health indices that are relevant for
measuring qualitative health care delivery”, he stated.
Adeyanju described the Abiye program as a strategy to ensure
that a pregnant woman continues to live.
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