The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, has advocated for a balance between work and private life among health workers into order to ensure sound mental health.
He stated this when a team from the West African College of Physicians (WACP) visited him in Abuja.
According to the Minister, the issue of work-life balance has continued to be of serious concern, especially, in the health sector.
He, therefore, revealed that the federal government is putting in place the needed interventions to address the situation.
“There is so much work stress on Nigerians particularly the health workers necessitating timely action by government to nip the resulting menace in the bud,” the Minister stressed.
Earlier, the leader of the team, Dr. Akin Moses, explained that Work-life Balance is a state of equilibrium in which demand of personal life, professional life and family life are equal.
The visit, according to him, was to intimate him of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Scientific Conference of their Nigeria Chapter.
The meeting with the theme: “Nigerian’s Health Indices” will have a Sub-theme: Work-life Balance and is scheduled for July 13-17, 2020 in Abuja.
He requested for the Minister’s presence as a Guest Speaker at the Conference and also solicited the support of the Ministry.
He pointed out that the theme of the conference was carefully chosen, based on the level of stress most doctors and health workers experience in the course of their duty, which leads to their ill health and often times death.
