Anambra govt declares war against quackery in health sector… 

Anambra State Government has warned the public to stop promoting quackery across the state.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Ben Obidike, who laid down the warning at a one-day capacity training of the task-force team on hospital monitoring in Awka, on Wednesday, appealed to residents and the public at large to report any such sharp practices to the government.

The commissioner emphasised that the training is geared towards improving healthcare and service delivery both in public and private healthcare facilities across the 21 local government areas of the state.

According to Obidike, supervision is a way of ensuring and improving health workers’ competence and effectiveness through careful observation, discussion, guidance and support.

He said there will be continuous monitoring, strategic means of identifying quack and fake hospitals by next year and also leverage on the public reporting to us.

He said that next year the state will establish Anambra State Health Facility Monitoring Accreditation Unit where hospitals must have been given accreditation to operate.

Obidike explained that the healthcare system in Anambra has improved significantly under the good leadership of the State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo