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Northern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Yakubu Mahama has called on the government to institute measures to ensure that final year students in community health nursing schools are equipped with the requisite skills to ride motorbikes, which will serve as a major boost in their efforts to reach out to communities in need of medical care.

Dr Mahama made this known in Bole when he presented five motorbikes to the Bole training school for community health nurses to help equip the would be nurses with the requisite motorbike riding skills to help reach out to the communities in need of medical care.

According to him, the knowledge and skills in riding motorbike is highly essential to the discharge of the duties by the community health nurses, since they need to go on outreach and home visits. 

The community health nurses are usually given motorbikes after they have completed their course of study and have been posted to their destinations, but this usually affects their output due to the inability of some of them to ride very well, and this usually results in some of them getting involved in motor-related accidents.

“The inability of the community health nurses to ride very well is hugely affecting health service delivery in the communities.”

The principal of the college, Madam Terbari, thanked the Regional Health Director and his team for the kind gesture, and promised to ensure the bikes are put to good use and also kept in good shape. She, however, appealed to the director and his team to consider scaling up the number of motorbikes to the school since, according to her, the five motorbikes are supposed to serve a student population of 130.