The needs for community health practitioners to upgrade the community health professions is from the board and I believed that with the aids of this platform and other notable platform this message will get to the appropriate quarter to address the challenges facing community health practitioners in the medical field.

As we all know that Community health practitioners is a Specially trained profession to provide Preventive, Promotive, Curative and Rehabilitative health services to people where they live and work. The question we should ask ourselves is that are we Truly Specially trained? and I think the challenges Start from mode of admission of the Schools of health.

For instance, if you don’t have enough money there is no how you can get admission, everywhere is full of corruption, Entrance exam has turned to business, brilliant Students has been decline from admission and and admission is given to those that has leg and those that can bribe. You can imagine that A 50years woman that want to upgrade herself in the government setting will not choose any other course to study than Community health and they definitely get it because of their money. All this this has been affecting our profession because those that have time to read will not be admitted and I guess this can not happen in Nursing.

Nurses Claimed that community health are their assistant and some of the community health practitioners also believed that they are Nurses assistant forgetting that both the cadre hold the same qualification. For instance, if a Nurse Study General Nursing without Midwifery you both have the same diploma except for those that have B.sc in Nursing and B.sc in community health. But the major problems is that the way the community health are been giving admission and the way they have been trained. It is the duty of the board to make sure that the community health practitioners are the best in terms of proper monitoring of the schools of health to make sure that they provide outstanding students.

The 2021 National exam made it clear that students focus on the examination malpractice and that is the reason why there is mass failure. I have make my research for the progress of this profession and I came into the conclusion that for this profession to move forward and to also provide outstanding Students….

1) The Community health practitioners board of Nigeria Should with held Approval of Some schools of health Studying Community health and this should be done to reduce the Number of Schools Offering Community Courses.

2) There Should be not more than 1 Private School that will be Approved to Study Community health Courses in each State after the State School of health.

3) Limiting age of Students to study community health courses should be giving by the board and will enable the Schools to admit young people rather than Older people.

4) Community health Practitioners should also be allow to carry out their SIWES in a Secondary health Care, Standard Private Hospital rather than limiting them only to health Centre and this will make them to meet up in medical line after their program because many of them get a job in a private hospital.

5) Distribution of power should be equal rather than tribalism, for instance, South west has been given 75 Students for indexing every year for the senior chew and 50 Students for the jchew, while North Often Index more 200,250,300 and above each year this is totally affect our profession because will produce large quantity of students without outstanding.

6) During National Exam, every invigilator should received adequate compensation from the board and the board should also make sure that those invigilator received proper training to stop Examination malpractice anyone being caught should face the penalty.

7) Only Community health practitioners should be allow to operate in a primary health care and this will allow them to use their Standing Orders.

8) By now, Community health practitioners supposed to have area of Specialty to allow the profession meet up with the other medical profession.

9) CHO should have their own Advance Standing Orders and the Board should also upgrade the profession to level of Doctorate.

Thanks you for reading.