By Marvis Osiobe-Eterigho
The Director of Nursing Services at the Erovie Community Health Care Centre, Ozoro, Mrs Imafoma Patricia has lamented the shortage of manpower and infrastructure at the Centre, calling on the Isoko North Local Government Council Authority for a better accommodation, equipment and manpower for effective and efficient discharge of their duties.
These lamentations were made last Tuesday in an exclusive interview at the centre with the visibly elated Director amidst congratulatory messages from her subordinates on a reported elevation and transfer from the Centre.
Nurse Patricia pointed out that the present accommodation for the health care centre is a rented apartment and not spacious enough to accommodate all patients.
“This facility is under the Ozoro Ward 02 and basically for Erovie and Etevie quarters. You can see the crowd of people that came. This place is not spacious enough to accommodate every patient, that is why you see some of them waiting outside. We are pleading with the local government so that they can give us a permanent site in order to accommodate our mothers and our children”.
Speaking further, Patricia added that the centre lacks some basic equipment, saying “We need equipment and instruments because there are some we do not have. Like now, we do not have family planning equipment at all. There are some family planning services we are suppose to be rendering but we can not do that because we do not have the equipment”.
She also stated that the centre has shortage of manpower as there are only four workers at the centre, herself inclusive. “I am the only clinical staff here. I have one as HOC staff and two CHEWs”.
She therefore called on the local government authority for quick intervention, advising that “the provision of these equipment and staff will help improve the services they render to the patients”.
