Environmental stakeholders brainstorm to strengthen practice

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna

Environmental Health Council of Nigeria, EHCON, and relevant stakeholders are brainstorming to review guidelines that will strengthen its practice .
They made the disclosed at a three days technical review meeting on guildlines for the monitoring of Environmental Health Practice and Service in Abuja,
Registrar of the Council , Dr Yakubu Baba reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ensure environmental health becomes the number one profession in the health sector.
He also noted that the meeting was to review fourteen documents, which are very critical to the development of the Council.
Baba said that “You are carefully selected to actively participate in this critique meeting because the intention of the Council is to have an instruments that will strengthen the practitioners and also re- integrate the practice of environmental health in Nigeria.
He said the instrument is very critical to our survivor as a probation looking critically at the review Council Act, which has given a lot of power to the Council to do so many things and regulate the practice of the profession of environmental health.
“ Without this instrument we are seeing a lot of gaps and challenges for us to deliver on the provisions in the act that establish the Council, basically the Council priority is to make environmental health as number one profession in the health sector which is happening globally.”
He explained that, the aim of the meeting was to review the documents the Council has been using over time.
Dr Baba also noted that the meeting would also help the professionals to strengthen the practice and thereby reposition the profession of environmental health as part of the agenda of the Council rebranding process.