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CHAIRMAN’S
OPENING ADDRESS AT THE 2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON
27TH JULY, 2011 AT KINGSTONE GRAND SUITES, ONIKANGA, G.R.A,
ILORIN
I salute you all. It is one year since you gave us the
mandate to steer the affairs of our noble association. We
thank God almighty who had spared our lives until this time
and we pray to him to grant us many more years in good
health.
We promised at inception to reorganize the Secretariat and
ensure that every member of our noble association is well
informed about events in the association. We were able to
ensure that notices of meetings and important notices and
events were send through SMS and Emails to our members in
the first few months of coming to office. We will very soon
ensure that all members of the association get decision
extracts and detail minutes of meetings sent to them via
email. We have been able to provide members with identity
cards of the association. Those who have not gotten theirs
should please fill the necessary forms and they will get
theirs before the end of the year.
We are compiling a data base of all the Medical Doctors in
the state. We hope to provide a Kwara State Medical
Directory before the end of the year, which will contain the
data of all the Doctors in the State, both in the public and
private sector .This directory will be made available to
all...
SECRETARIAT REPORT
 The
current State Executive Council was elected and inaugurated
at the 2010 AGM held on 17th July, 2010 at Doctors House,
GRA Ilorin with a mandate of steering the ship of our noble
association on the part of progress for the next two years.
Since inception of this current executive, the secretariat
has been a beehive of activities tailored towards a
well-informed, motivated, fully-participating membership and
a vibrant association.
The policy thrust of the secretariat has been to restructure
and reposition Kwara NMA for a better, more efficient and
effective welfare services for members, and working in
partnership with government and other relevant stakeholders
in improving health care delivery in the State.
Consequently, the secretariat has been providing supportive
coordination of the programmes and activities of the
association with a view to moving the association forward.
Some of these activities are outlined below:
1. ADVOCACY
On assumption of office, we paid courtesy visits to the
Chief Medical Director, UITH Ilorin, Vice Chancellor,
University of Ilorin, Honourable Commissioner for Health,
Kwara State; other well meaning individuals and cooperate
bodies which yielded positive results. During these visits,
issues of mutual interest were discussed and we intimated
them on the vision of the new SOC. They pledged their
support and cooperation especially in the areas of improved
welfare for our members. The association also received
delegations from banks, NGOs and political groups at the
secretariat with the visits dwelling on requests for
partnership/business relationship and other issues of common
interest.
2. COMMITTEE WORK
Standing and adhoc committees were duly constituted by SEC
and ratified by the OGM for ease of administration, all
inclusiveness and to engage capable/experienced members in
the task of realizing the vision and mission of the current
executives.
These committees have been actively pursuing their mandates
with the full support of the secretariat. Of particular note
are the activities of the Housing, Car Acquisition,
Education, Editorial, Loan and CPD/CME committees.
We secured a weekly free air-time on Kwara State Television
which is been utilized by the Education committee for public
enlightenment on health matters. The secretariat is involved
in transporting members to the station who featured weekly
to discuss topics of public health importance (in Yoruba and
English) as a way of checking the menace of traditional
herbalist and quacks who have colonized the air waves in
recent times. The association will soon commence a monthly
interactive forum with members of the public on health
matters which will be transmitted live on KWTV.
The Editorial committee sustained the legacy of publishing
the newsletter of the association, the Mediscope. This much
improved 11th edition served as an avenue of providing our
members with scholarly articles as well as information on
our activities, upcoming events and a plat form for
pharmaceutical/laboratory equipment companies to advertise
their products. The secretariat was involved in the
collation and circulation/distribution of the newsletter to
all our members. Efforts are in top gear to publish the 12th
edition of the Mediscope as well as the maiden edition of
the Savannah Journal of Medical Research and Practice, which
is the official journal of Kwara NMA.
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MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For
a list of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Programes, Continuing Medical Education and Seminars. Click
here
There are also more articles in our journals at the top left
and archives
NMA KWARA MEMBERSHIP LOAN SCHEME
The
NMA Kwara SEC inaugurated a Nine-man committee early last
year to work out a modality for packaging loan for members
through a suitable commercial bank at the most favorable
rate achievable. Six (6) leading commercial banks made
presentations to the committee, to the SEC and later at the
OGM. Eventually UBA Plc with its team of young, dedicated
and hardworking staff had an edge.
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