The Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria hosted its 2nd Annual Conference with the theme "improving Quality Standards in the Nigeria Health System" on July 6th 2010 at the Muson Center's Agip Hall in Lagos.

The conference was attended by experts in the medical field as well as members of the Society. In all there were 12 speakers who gave an indepth presentation of their subject matter. Copies of the presentations are available on the website homepage as well as the biographies of each speaker.

Click here to view the report of the Conference.

The Annual Conference for the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria will come up on the 6th of July 2010. Recently, a call for papers for the conference was sent out for all intersted members who had a contribution to do so by sending in their Papers, Brief presentations and Abstracts.
The turnout of Papers was encouraging as members of the Society sent in papers which are duly being considered.
The Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria would like to say thank you to all members who took out time to contribute to the conference by sending in papers.

Recently, the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria held a two day conference at the Lagos Resource Centre on the 11th and 12th of February. There was a speaker for each day and the first day introduced Mr. Christopher Ente who was able to educate the Society members and other interested people on the importance of The Human Factor and Patient Safety. Mr. Gbenga Olatunji facilitated the event on the second day and introduced the WHO Good Governance for Medincines Programmes.

The turnout was impressive and some attendees enrolled as new members of the Society.

The following members have their certificates ready for collection. However, there are no valid addresses to send them to. Kindly send an updated address to sqhnigeria@gmail.com and your certificate will be sent to you.

Dike Ifeanyi Osarodion
Babawale David Toyin
Dr. Foluke Idris
Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Malik
Dr. Olubunmi Oyetunde
Mr. Musa Shaibu
Nwabuike N Ogor
PHILLIPS PHARMACEUTICALS NIGERIA LIMITED
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

If you choose to collect it yourself, please contact us at the secretariat located at 14 Amodu Tijani, Victoria Island Lagos or call Ema on 0806-862-3151

The Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria successfully held its 1st Quarterly seminar for members on Wednesday November 25th 2009 at Lagos Resource Center in Lagos. The first seminar topic focused on the important topic of Patient Safety with attention given to the 9 WHO checklist of common errors in Hospitals. 

The second seminar educated the audience on the not so popular topic of Medical Waste Management also highlighting the fact that improper management of medical waste in the hospital can also put patients at risk from infection different from what they presented with.

These seminars will help build capacity and create awareness for the society members, while encouraging adoption of best practices and raising awareness to prevent common medical pitfalls.  All this is in an effort to improve healthcare quality in Nigeria.

The presentations are now available for download.

Patient Safety - Road map to Improvement
Medical Waste Management

For further inquiries or to contact the presenters, please email sqhnnigeria@gmail.com

PRESS RELEASE

On July 7^th 2009, The Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria will hold its first conference at Muson Centre Agip Hall starting at 9am.  The society which is the brain child of a group of healthcare providers with a vision to see improvement in quality of healthcare in Nigeria was incorporated in May 2006 as a non-governmental organisation.  Members are individuals and organisations who share the same vision and thus provide a strong platform to facilitate sharing of healthcare best practices and experience, as well as being the advocacy vehicle to promote a culture of quality improvement and excellence in healthcare delivery.

 

There has been a gradual but definite decline in the quality and scope of healthcare services available in Nigeria, in a technological age in which medical science is developing in leaps and bounds. This has resulted in a widening gap between what obtains in the developed and developing worlds. 

 

According to Dr. Ngozi Onyia, Chairman of the conference planning committee “two particular occurrences bring this sharply into focus for me.  Firstly, anecdotes surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s visits to Nigeria say that during her first visit in the 1950s, she was advised to go without her medical team as the University College Hospital, Ibadan was rated then as the 4^th best hospital in the Commonwealth. However, her next visit some 40 years later, she came in with a comprehensive, well equipped medical team as well as a mini emergency room on a ship.  The second is my personal experience of having to rush my3day old baby to the UK  for life saving surgery, a surgery I had witnessed being performed as medical student 14 years earlier at the UCH, simply because it could no longer be done locally in 1994.”  She further noted that a combination of the decaying infrastructure and the brain drain has literarily brought our health system to its knees.

 

All well meaning stakeholders in the industry have been concerned about the decline in the healthcare delivery systems in our country and a lot has been done to stem this tide, both in the private and the public sectors. Most of these efforts however have been in silos and there is a need for standardisation and harmonisation of these initiatives to close the existing quality gap in the industry. 

 

CONFERENCE GOALS

 

This maiden conference has the following objectives;  

1. Creating awareness about the activities of the society and drive membership.
2. Promoting the principles and practice of quality improvement and risk management in healthcare
3. Introducing the concept of accreditation as a tool for quality improvement in healthcare.
4. Creating awareness around the importance of patient safety and measurement of clinical outcomes  and
5. Exchange of ideas and knowledge on ways of improving healthcare quality.

 

Speaking at the conference will be a panel of distinguished speakers including Professor S. Whittaker, CEO of COHSASA Africa, Africa’s leading accrediting body; who will give a talk on Maintaining Standards, Role of  Accreditation & Training; and Dr Ashram Ismail MD JCI, Middle East MPH, of the Joint Commission International; who will give a talk on Accreditation as a Means of Improving Clinical Outcomes.

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Health Practitioners
• Policy makers
• Educators
• NGOs
• Civil Society Organisations

 

All interested individuals and organisations willing to support this effort are invited to join the society. 

For further information contact:

Dr Ngozi Onyia (MB,BS, FWACP, MBA)

Company Medical Adviser Nigerian Breweries Plc

Chairman of the Conference Planning Committee

Tel: 0805 402 2219.