Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN), on Saturday made a solemn promise to clamp down on unlicensed community health practitioners.
Chairman of the board, Mr. Sule Toma made the promise in Abuja at the quarterly meeting of the heads of health institutions.
Toma said it had been the tradition of the board to hold quarterly meetings with provosts, principals, and coordinators in the sector, to brainstorm on prevalent community health issues.
According to him, it is also CHPRBN’s mandate to organize professional development training/programmes for different cadres of community health practitioners in the country.
They also facilitate policies and guidelines on the administration of schools, colleges and training institutions under the board.
He noted that the aim was to ensure professionalism, as well as to ensure that Nigeria’s community health attained globally accepted standards.
The chairman of the board which oversees the affairs of more than 500 stakeholders and heads of health institutions, also lauded President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Ministry of Health, for their support for the sector.
Earlier, Mr. Bashir Idris, Registrar/CEO of CHPBRN, expressed displeasure over the poor performance of students in the health sector in 2021.
He called for all hands to be on deck to ensure better performance in 2022.
“I do not wish to have a repeat of such, and we will continue to ensure zero tolerance for examination malpractice,” Idris said.(NAN)
