The Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN), has moved to ensure the elimination of quacks among practitioners.
Alhaji Bashir Idris, Registrar of CHPRBN, stated this when Aluta News paid him a visit on Tuesday in Abuja.
Idris described community health practitioners as specially trained professionals, who provided primitive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health activities and services to the people where they lived and worked.
He therefore, said professional conduct, ethics and etiquette, were mandatory guides among practitioners.
He said more than
171 schools of health technology in Nigeria, regulated by the board, were training professionals in that regard.
The registrar also encouraged the public to forward complaints against erring practitioners to the board, which would ensure appropriate sanctions if found culpable.
Earlier Muyiwa Onlede, Director Administration, Aluta Media Limited, publishers of Aluta News, congratulated Idris on his appointment as the Registrar of CHPRBN.
Onlede said the management of Aluta Media Limited, was in CHPRBN to familiarise with the board for a mutual and beneficial relationship.
He used the opportunity to commend the efforts of the registrar in curbing the menace of unregistered practitioners with the aim of eliminating quackery in the system.
Onlede therefore requested for a robust partnership between Aluta Media and CHPRN, for a more fluid dissemination of information to the public.
Aluta News reports that CHPRN was established in 2004 as a regulatory agency with a clear focus on production of relevant human resources for efficient Primary Health Care (PHC) Services in Nigeria.
It was also aimed at improving the standard of Community Health Care in Nigeria by Regulating, Teaching, Learning and Practicing of Community Health.
