Health Ministry Organize 2025 Retreat for Health Directors' .... As Kachollom Urges Directors' to Uphold Tenets of Effective Service Delivery and Succession Planning

Daju Kachollom, Permanent Secretary addressing Directors' during the 2025 Retreat for Directors in the Federal Ministry of Health Social & Welfare, held @ the Carlton Swiss Hotel Enugu, Enugu State.

 .... As Permanent Secretary, Daju Kachollom implores Directors' to prioritise transparency, embrace innovation, foster partnerships and, build empowered, sustainable teams to ensure an efficient and effective system that meets its goals.

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has urged personnel in the Directorship cadre to ensure effective delivery of services within the Health Sector to the Nigerian populace; which is considered as very critical to achieving the mandate of the Ministry, as well as ensuring purposeful succession planning to sustain the Ministry's current achievements.

Making this call is the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Daju Kachollom during the retreat for Directors' in the Ministry held at the Carlton Swiss Hotel Enugu, Enugu State.

The retreat, themed; "Strengthening Leadership for Effective and Efficient Health and Social Welfare Governance", the Permanent Secretary in her address, highlighted the importance and objectives of the retreat for effective and efficient provision of healthcare services.

Kachallom noted that the retreat will involve strategic planning to assess the Ministry's current position, set long-term goals and, outline the steps required to achieve them.

Additionally, it will also foster team building, strengthen interpersonal relationships among participants, improve communication and, encourage a collaborative environment.

While defining Leadership as a driving force behind organisations, the Permanent Secretary implored the Directors' to prioritise transparency, embrace innovation, foster partnerships and, build empowered, sustainable teams to ensure an efficient and effective system that meets its goals.

"In this regard, we must fully embrace the on-going reforms and take ownership of them. 

"We must adopt the principles of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021–2025, with particular focus on the new Performance Management System (PMS), which is designed to track both individual performance and our collective contributions to ministerial and national development goals.

"At its core, performance management aligns individual goals with Organizational objectives, ensuring a unified direction", the Permanent Secretary added.

Additionally, Daju Kachollom urged Directors' present at the retreat to prioritize mentoring and succession planning, stressing that, mentoring and succession planning, which according to her, are key initiatives to strengthen and sustain the progress achieved by the Ministry.

 Directors of Human Resource Management Department, Tetshoma Dafeta and Food & Drugs Department, Pharmacist Olubunmi Aribeana conducting a  power point presentation on Mentoring & Succession, while other Directors' listened with rapt attention.

Major highlights of the retreat include power point presentations by the participating Directors' in the Ministry, further affirming a deliberate intent of the top management on enhancing leadership skills and, addressing challenges facing the Ministry while offering solutions to overcome them.

This is contained in a statement issued and signed by Alaba Balogun, Deputy Director of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry.