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Summary:
The health of healthcare workers had received little attention in Nigeria until the Ebola and COVID -19 pandemics which highlighted the vulnerability of frontline healthcare workers. Subsequently, several training programmes were mounted to increase the capacity of healthcare workers in Infection Prevention and Control with little attention to other aspects of health and safety and the wellbeing of healthcare workers.
This presentation highlights a project to study the impact of OH training of frontline healthcare workers in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria to improve health and safety practices and wellbeing. The project was sponsored by Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET) and was conducted at the College of Medicine at Ibadan in collaboration with SOM project team in the UK. The presentation reports the findings of a pre intervention survey of knowledge and practice of health and safety measures at work and wellbeing of healthcare workers, 430 primary healthcare workers and 191 doctors . This was followed by an in-person 4 -day training programme for 261 primary healthcare workers and 61 doctors. Post intervention survey to determine the impact of the training programme showed improvement in health and safety practices and wellbeing in quantitative and qualitative assessments. This project was the first occupational health training programme for primary healthcare workers in Oyo State and has the potential to be scaled up to other states in Nigeria.
Presenter bio:
Folashade Omokhodion is a Professor of Community Medicine and Occupational Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and an honorary Consultant Community and Occupational Physician to the University College Hospital, Ibadan. She is currently Head of the Department of Occupational Health and Safety at the University College Hospital.
She graduated MBBS at the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan and had her postgraduate training in Occupational Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She holds the Masters and PhD degrees of the University of London in Occupational Medicine and the Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London, UK. She also holds the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in the Faculty of Community Health and the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
She has worked as consultant to industries and international agencies. She served as research adviser to Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria.
Chair: Dr Shriti Pattani
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