Mordi stated that the initiative would institutionalise structured process of using data, collected at health facilities, to facilitate informed decision-making at the national level for improved service delivery
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The Minister made this call in Abuja Thursday at the Emergency National Council on Health meeting, which was convened to deliberate and agree on the new National Health Policy, the recent resurgence of polio cases, persisting Lassa Fever outbreaks in some states as well as plans on achieving Universal Health Coverage
He outlined the pillars as Maternal New Born and Child Health, Childhood Essential Medicines and increasing treatment of Childhood Diseases, Improving Child Nutrition, Immunization, Malaria Control and Elimination of Mother to Child transmission of HIV and the enablers as Promoting Innovation and use of ICT and improving Supply and Distribution Chain
They said the hospital management under the leadership of the Medical Director, Dr. Akinwande Akinhanmi, had been making “failed promises”.
He recalled that attempts had been made twice, in 1988 and 2004, to develop a health policy for the nation.
He said: “This year, government is designing a new health policy deliberately captured to promote the health of Nigerians to accelerate socio-economic development
The Minister, who gave the commendation on Thursday, while meeting with a delegation from the Institute led by their President, Mercy Iyortyer, in Abuja, reaffirmed that the Federal Government was not planning to build new Primary Healthcare Centres but to rehabilitate the existing ones
Briefing the press on Monday, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said the set targeted goals are ambitious, but certainly doable and would keep the top management of the Federal Ministry of Health on their toes in the next 100 days of implementation
Performing the commissioning ceremony of the PHC in Beji village, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, expressed happiness with Niger Sate Government for rehabilitating the PHC and making it functional for the benefit of local communities in Bosso Local Government Area
Adewole, who spoke at a side event organized by Merck Pharmaceutical Company at the ongoing 69th World Health Assembly, lamented that medical tourism has been a drain on the country’s resources and the Federal Ministry of Health was making efforts to reverse the trend
The Minister made the call on Monday at the launching of the Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa at the ongoing World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland
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He announced that with the proposed partnership, no Nigerian would be allowed to go abroad for treatment on government sponsorship from Jan. 2017
During the visit on behalf of the Federal Government, Adewole promised to pay all the medical expenses of the patient, Faith Andrew, one of the six children of a widow who cannot afford N25,000 thrice a week for her daughter’s dialysis, let alone the N7 million needed for her Kidney transplant
The Minister said the approach will increase access to health care services, reduce exposure of Nigerians citizens to financial catastrophe and ensure citizens’ satisfaction with health service received
Presenting the equipment to the Hon. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, in Abuja, the Country Director of WHO, Dr. Rui Gama Vaz, said the equipment was initially to curtail the spread of Ebola epidemic
The development forced the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho, to quickly resolve to executive session during the budget defence with Minister of Health
The Minister, represented by an Assistant Director, Fatai Oyediran, who led a team of medical experts and environmental scientists from Federal Ministry of Health to Plateau State, informed that his team was in the state to confirm the complaint, assess the current status of the snakebite and carry out a sensitization and awareness campaign aimed at raising the bar in terms of prevention and control of the scourge
Adewole said: “The public is hereby assured that government and its partners and other stakeholders are working tirelessly to address the outbreak and bring it to timely end
In response to the current Lassa fever outbreak, the Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to coordinate the response and provide support to the affected states to fight and prevent the spread of the outbreak, as well as establishing case management centres in tertiary institutions in the states
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