By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
President of National Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria (NACHPN), Comrade Kabir Yahaya Ahmed has announced that the association will partner Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to close down unlicensed community health centers and prosecute them.
He gave the warning during a reception organised by the North West Zone of the association in honour of their president in Kaduna.
Comrade Kabir Yahaya Ahmed said that the only way to address their challenges is through collaboration with EFCC and ICPC and also digitizing all their activities.
Comrade Kabir Yahaya Ahmed said ninety per cent of community health practitioners are computer literate and with the new approach of digitization, all their genuine members can be identified.
He assured that with digitization and collaboration with key stakeholders, quacks and illegal centers would have to look for jobs elsewhere, but not at community health.
The president of National Association of Community Health Practitioners also announced the plan to review the act establishing the community health in order to provide windows of opportunities for their members to develop their educational careers.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Chairman of National Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria, Kaduna State Chapter, Comrade Ibrahim Lawal Kubau who congratulated Comrade Kabiru Yahaya Ahmed for winning the number one seat of the association in the country, assured that the members of North-West Zone would give him maximum support and cooperation to succeed.
He urged the president and his executive to address the issue of increase in proliferation and operations of private schools of health technologies that claimed to be training community health.
Comrade Ibrahim Lawal Kubau also lamented the level of uncertified and unlicensed community health practitioners that need thorough follow to maintain the professional ethics.
The state chairman also appreciated the government of Kaduna State for the transformation agenda by developing 255 primary health centers across the state.
During the remarks, some of the members advised the president to take the community health practitioners to a greater level.
