Ekiti Health Commissioner inaugurates taskforce to curb quackery
The Ekiti State Government has expressed its readiness to weed off
quackery among the Medical and Health Practitioners in the state.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr.
Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade gave the assurance while inaugurating Medical
and Health Practices Regulation Taskforce in her office in Ado-Ekiti.
Dr. Kolade noted that the Taskforce has become necessary in order to
ensure efficient health system regulation and to sanitize the entire
health sector structures including the public and private
practitioners and patient medicine dealers.
“The menace of medical quackery has gotten to an alarming and
embarrassing level in the state”. She stated.
The commissioner noted that the term of reference of the Taskforce
committee include promulgating and ensuring standards of quality of
health care service delivery across all spheres as well as elimination
of intra-professional Medical health service quackery.
The Taskforce was also to facilitate the implementation of sanctions
and prosecutions when needed and perform scheduled and unscheduled
health facility visitation.
According to Dr. Kolade, “The Taskforce shall be responsible for
guaranteeing their members who apply for registration of premises and
shall prescribe standards of practices and regulations for Traditional
Birth Attendants”.
Earlier in her remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health
and Human Services, Dr. Folakemi Olomojobi stated that the Taskforce
was inaugurated primarily to weed off quackery in the Medical and
health practices across the state.
Dr. Olomojobi expressed great concern over loss of lives to
unqualified and quack practitioners especially the Traditional Birth
Attendants in the rural areas across the state.
“The committee is to sanitize the health sector as well as ensuring
that no more live is lost to quackery and unprofessional medical
practices in Ekiti state”, She noted.
The Taskforce headed by the State Commissioner for Health and Human
Services, Dr. Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade has its other members drawn from
medical related professional bodies and associations such as Medical
Consultant Association, Association of Government Medical
Practitioners of Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force and other relevant
organizations, while the Director Hospital Services & Training, Dr.
Olusanya Adetoye serves as the Secretary.
