Kogi trains 315 health workers on data reporting
IDRIS AHMED, Lokoja.
The Kogi State government trained 315 health workers on data reporting, the Executive Director, State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KSPHCDA), Dr Abubakar Yakubu disclosed.
Addressing stakeholders in Lokoja on Friday, during a sensitization meeting on COVID-19 vaccination and primary health care system, Dr Yakubu said the training centred majorly on data reporting and the participants were drawn from the 21 LGAs.
Yakubu stated that the sensitisation programme was organised by his agency with support from World Health Organisation (WHO) through the “Can Give Project” saying it would enable Kogi State have accurate data on health intervention programmes.
Represented by the focal person,“Can Give Project”, Dr Emmanuel Bola, the KSPHCDA Executive Director said, “We invited 15 health workers from each local government area to see how we can improve on reporting public health events at the local government level and every form of intervention in the health sector and to make sure that our reports are accurate from the grassroot”.
Kogi State coordinator of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Raji Muktar Toyosi, said the workshop would further enable Kogi State to have qualitative data to benefit from necessary health interventions.
He disclosed that the agency had identified discrepancies at the local government level during data collection and reporting which should be urgently rectified.
