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To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), Nigeria should be demarcated into 17,000 health blocks each to be made roughly of 10,000 prospective enrollees into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Pharmacists under the raegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have appealed to the Federal Government to give imme-diate attention to the de-mands of striking health workers. FG to Extend Health Insurance Coverage to NYSC, Prison Inmates, Retirees
The federal government has said that plans were underway to extend health insurance policy to cover National Youth Service Corps, prison inmates and retirees across the country in a move to reduce burden on the part of citizens.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has appreciated the support of Global Fund and United State Agency for International Development (USAID) in building a magnificent Premier Medical Warehouse to manage the drugs distribution system in Nigeria.
The Federal Government yesterday said it would set up cancer care centres in its tertiary institutions to reverse the rising trend of medical tourism. It is therefore seeking the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other development partners to actualise the plan.Director says universal health coverage attainable through primary healthcare
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, has said that Nigeria would attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) using Primary Health Care as a tool.
Moeti said this at a press briefing organised by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, at the end of the visit of the WHO director to Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it would increase the budgetary allocation to the health sector in the 2017 fiscal year to address some of the challenges facing it.
Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in the FCT, Dr Fatima Mairami, says tackling corruption that funnelled public funds into private pockets will free up more funds to make universal health care accessible to Nigerians.
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Health experts have recently emphasized the benefits of Family Planning (FP) to the quality of maternal health and mortality in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Health, and Information and Culture, to deepen their collaboration with state governments to ensure that Nigeria is finally certified polio free by 2017.
This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist fromAhmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
The Federal Government yesterday unveiled a health intervention programme that would provide free surgery to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The programme, which will start on July 18 in 46 health facilities across Nigeria, will also extend free breast and cervical cancer tests to 18,000 Nigerians as well as free diabetes and hypertension tests to 500,000 others.
