The Oyo State House of Assembly on Wednesday requested the state governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, to grant the State School of Basic Midwifery at Kisi full autonomy for enhanced efficiency.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the House’s request was necessitated by the need for the employment of more medical personnel, particularly in the state’s Oke-Ogun area.
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The request followed a motion by Mr Waliu Salami.
It was titled “An appeal to Gov. Seyi Makinde under Omititun 2.0 to approve Oyo State School of Basic Midwifery Kisi as an autonomous and full-fledged institution in continuation of efforts to fill the medical personnel gaps in Oke-Ogun and Oyo state at large”.
The House noted that available facilities and infrastructure at the institution in Kisi was enough to justify the call to grant the school the required full autonomy.
It added that it has taken cognisance of the qualified and employable graduates produced by the school.
Since its establishment in 2016, the graduates are yet to be productively engaged as trained professionals, the House noted.
The House said the Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery was established through the enactment of Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery Law, 2005.
This was to, among other things, train student-nurses who provide nursing care for the citizenry in rural and urban areas either at primary, secondary or tertiary levels of healthcare settings in the state.
While presenting the motion, Salami disclosed that since inception the College has trained millions of qualified nurses and midwives in Nigeria to fill the medical personnel gaps experienced in the health sector.
“Since inception, the school has graduated qualified and employable sets of graduates as midwives, doing the state proud professionally in places of work nationwide and globally.
“The school trained midwife-students of Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery with qualified personnel.
“It is therefore justifiable that with the presence of the facilites and infrastructure on ground, the School of Basic Midwifery Kisi has what it takes to be an autonomous and full-fledged medical institution,” Salami added.
After deliberating on the motion, the House urged the executive arm of government through the Ministry of Health and Oyo State School of Nursing to put the necessary machinery in place.
It said this would be for the metamorphosis of the school into an autonomous and full-fledged medical institution.
The House said this would be in continuation of the institution’s efforts at providing qualified and employable medical personnel in the state and country as a whole.(NAN). READ ALSO:
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