President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of two new Chief Executive Officers of Agencies under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare:
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The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the nation’s health sector due to a number of issues.
Lamentations to these effects were made by Senators and some stakeholders in the health sector during a Public Hearing session on Bills seeking for establishments of health related institutions and Council and Development Fund organised by the Senate Committee on Health.
Dangote noted that such an allocation, which would be separate from the corporate tax usually paid to the government, would improve needed funding to boost the nation’s ailing health sector, as Nigeria continues to grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said this during the presentation of the 2021 Appropriation Budget at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Ikeja on Tuesday.
The short-term implications of this global challenge are evident everywhere, but the long-term consequences of the pandemic — how it will reshape health services delivery and accessibility in the post COVID-19 world — have started engaging the thoughts and attention of forward-looking service providers.
The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, stated that the current administration in Oyo State was set to remodel health facilities in all the nooks and crannies of the state.
This drive was further re-enforced by the N100 billion Health Sector Support Fund set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria to cushion the effect of COVID-19 on the nation’s economy and the health sector in particular.
Abiru said this during a webinar hosted by the Bank on: “Managing Healthcare Business During & Post-COVID-19.”
This has become necessary as the country continues to tackle the evolving crisis of the novel Coronavirus pandemic, s statement by the Bank said on Wednesday.
The OKG in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Adebayo Ayandele, commended Governor Seyi Makinde for the courage to do the right thing by seeking funding alternatives for the state’s infrastructure drive following dwindling resources occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has assured that Nigeria’s health sector would not remain the same post-COVID-19 as all measures would be taken to improve the sector.
Bishop Wale Oke, the National Deputy President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, says the coronavirus pandemic has created an opportunity for Nigeria to develop its health sector.
The product is designed to meet the funding needs of healthcare service providers in Nigeria.
Alex Okoh, Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, has said that the enterprise has proposed a set of reforms, to attract private funding for the health sector
The Chairman, Kwara State branch of the Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Kolade Solagberu, has called on the state government to appoint qualified doctors as health policy makers in the state.
Prof. Akin Osibogun, a former Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, has decried the shortage of manpower in the health sector.
The Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association says brain drain, improper policies and investments, inadequate facilities and health insurance are yet to be addressed in the health sector as the nation marks its 58th independence.
Adama made this known in a statement issued by the Vice Consul, Information and Culture, David Abraham, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
Buhari made the pledge when he received the new executive of the Nigerian Medical Association at the State House, Abuja on Thursday.