{
  "id": 4109515,
  "title": "Board to tighten regulation, training of health officers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/board-to-tighten-regulation-training-of-health-officers",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-29T04:03:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/board-to-tighten-regulation-training-of-health-officers/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria (HRORBN) is strengthening the regulation and training of Health Information Management (HIM) practitioners to enhance professional competence and adapt to evolving healthcare demands in Nigeria. HRORBN Registrar/CEO Alhaji Babangida Mustapha announced these reforms during his second tenure, one year after assuming office. The board aims to improve registration, licensing, and monitoring of practitioners and training institutions while reinforcing professional standards and ethics. Mustapha emphasized the need for a competency-focused system due to changing professional requirements. The board is harmonizing curricula across training institutions and strengthening monitoring and accreditation processes to ensure consistent training quality and boost students' performance in exams. Additionally, the board is preparing for Nigeria's digital healthcare transformation by focusing on digital skills like health informatics, data management, clinical coding, and digital governance. The HRORBN is also digitizing its services and internal processes, such as administration, communication, and records management, to boost efficiency and transparency. While acknowledging challenges like insufficient funding, infrastructure deficiencies, and the lack of a permanent office, Mustapha highlighted the HRORBN's ongoing operation from rented accommodations and inadequate ICT facilities in some training institutions. He stressed that HIM professionals contribute to health care planning, research, data quality management, policy formulation, and evidence-based decision-making, calling for greater recognition and utilization of their roles. Looking ahead, the board plans to consolidate reforms by improving accreditation, training, examinations, and digital skills development, hoping sustained support from stakeholders will bolster Nigeria's HIM workforce for effective health care development.",
  "summary": "The Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria (HRORBN) says it is strengthening the regulation and training of Health Information Management (HIM) practitioners to improve professional competence and meet the changing demands of Nigeria’s health care system. The registrar/chief executive officer of the board, Alhaji Babangida Mustapha, disclosed this in Abuja while giving an account…",
  "key_points": [
    "HRORBN strengthens regulation and training for Health Information Management practitioners",
    "Alhaji Babangida Mustapha, HRORBN CEO, announces reforms one year into tenure"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}