The Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN) has begun to take some steps to ensure the elimination of quacks among practitioners.
Registrar of CHPRBN, Alhaji Bashir Idri, stated this when the management of Aluta News paid him a courtesy visit on Tuesday in Abuja.
Idris described community health practitioners as specially trained professionals, who provide preventive, curative and rehabilitative health activities and services to the people where they live and work.
He, therefore, said professional conduct, ethics and etiquette, should be mandatory guides among practitioners.
Idris said more than 171 schools of health technology in Nigeria, regulated by the board, have been training professionals in that regard.
The registrar also encouraged the public to forward complaints against erring practitioners to the board, which he said would ensure appropriate sanctions imposed on any of them 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 a robust partnership between Aluta Media and CHPRN, for more unhindered 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 also aims at improving the standard of Community Health Care in Nigeria by Regulating, Teaching, Learning and Practicing of Community Health.