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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS VOL 3, NO 2
vi. Increasing the production of new staff. All newly established medical schools and
other health professionals training institutions needs to be properly monitored to
ensure quality and avoid surplus.
2. Geographical Imbalances. This can be addressed through a variety of measures. They include:
i. Specific recruitment for rural areas with incentives such as training, special financial
package or rapid promotion.
ii. Decentralization of hiring – by delegating the function to district health authorities or
iii.
hospitals
A period of rural service other than national youth service as a condition for private
practice.
3. Education and Training;
I. Efforts should be invested by the less endowed states to expand their in-service training
capacity to the level of the southern states that produce enough midwives for their
deployment in rural facilities to address the pressing MCH needs.
II.
III.
After graduation continuing medical education should become mandatory as a condition
for the renewal of practice license. Finally, accreditation of training institutions should be
seen as mechanism to sustain continuing improvement rather than a process of periodic
evaluation. FMOH collaborates with some local universities concerning the in-service
training of health manpower in the following areas: Health Planning & Management
(Universities of Benin, Ilorin and Maiduguri), Health Information Management (Ilorin),
and Health Economics (Abia State University). Plans are under way to commence
training programmes in Health Financing at the University of Calabar and Ahmadu Bello
University, and Women in Health at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. This
effort should be sustained.
Human Resource Research and Human Resource Health Information Systems; Many
health regulatory agencies could not report on skill mix parameters; they will need to
improve their database in order to report on these crucial indicators susceptible to guide
decision making.
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