Healthcare providers in Nigeria have been urged to be friendly to patients and clients, especially the youths. The call was made at the 7-day training of health workers in all the four Primary Healthcares, (PHC) workers in Apapa Iganmu Council in Ijora, Lagos State, last week organised by Action Health Incorporated in collaboration with Action for Change.“This is one of the programmes and we also have a programme on health educations service to increase awareness of the young people of the availability of services in the primary healthcare. “The training is targeted at the young people who are from ages 10 to 24 in Ijora Badie, because the services that is going to be provided is for them. There are various sexual reproductive health issues that are going on in Ijora considering the nature of the environment, its volatile nature, and having demolitions also exposes young people to various risk factors. A nurse at the Action Health Incorporated at the Adolescent Youth training healthcare clinic, Mrs. Damilola Olofinjano, expressed optimism that the programme would be mpactful because of the high prevalence of teenage pregnancy within the Olojowon community and high crime rate by young people and all that.
“Integrating adolescent training into an existing health care facility will be of use to young people within the community. They will be able to access health care services and not only health care services, counseling services and information will also be provided to them and they can transit into productive adult, there will be reduction of teenage pregnancy, reduction of crime rate, there will be literacy and all that in the community” she stressed.
Source: National Mirror online