In building the capacity of healthcare professionals to strengthen and deliver holistic healthcare services, the Healthcare Management Program (HMP) facilitated by PharmAccess Foundation, an international not-for-profit organization in collaboration with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University, in areas of quality assurance, finance, business and inventory management.
The graduation ceremony of all the certificate programme of the EDC including the Health Management Program held recently with a total of 41 healthcare professionals graduating, bringing to 83, the total number of people that have been trained by the partnership between PharmAccess Foundation and the EDC.
Njide Ndili, the country director, PharmAccess Foundation Nigeria, said health professionals should always think about their businesses in the context of new vistas of opportunities as they enter into a new phase. “The core objective of PharmAccess with the HMP is to build a strong network of Alumni who will help change the healthcare sector in Nigeria for the better,” said Ndili stating that there is a new decade of dominant business centered on digitization.
According to Ndili, the health management programme was designed with a strong curriculum, facilitated by experts in the field to teach healthcare professionals about the business of healthcare service delivery.
In 2017, PharmAccess subsidized the tuition fee of the first phase of the HMP by 50 percent, being an entrepreneurship training initiative for healthcare providers. The subsidy was provided with support from the CDC in the UK, Sterling Bank and Diamond Bank (now Access Bank).
Today, the program is self-sustaining and the value evident from the quality of the participants, including the 41 healthcare professionals that graduated this month, while the fourth cohort of the HMP will commence in March 2020.
SEYI JOHN SALAU
