Ehanire said this on Tuesday in Abuja during the global launch to eliminate cervical cancer.
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Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin, delivered the samples to the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, during a visit to the Ministry in Abuja.
The Federal Government has said that conducting mass testing for Coronavirus Disease in Nigeria would not be feasible now given the nation’s over 200 million population.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, launched the documents in Abuja.
The minister made the call in a message to a summit organised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Enugu Chapter, in Enugu on Wednesday.
A statement by the U.S. Embassy on Friday in Abuja said that the facility would enable the Ministry of Health to supply quality, life-saving health commodities to millions of Nigerians.
Wabba said this while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after the union suspended its six weeks nationwide strike on Thursday in Abuja.
A statement by Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the Ministry, said the minister made the unscheduled visit on Monday.
The Federal Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday that the minister gave the directive during an emergency meeting with chief medical directors and medical directors of tertiary hospitals in Abuja on Monday.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, announced this in a statement issued by Oshundun Olajide, Assistant Director, Media and Public Relations of the ministry on Monday in Abuja.
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Osogbo, Adewole said that Federal Government was not happy with the strike.
Josiah Biobelemoye, Chairman of the union, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
The minister said this on his Twitter handle @IsaacFAdewole.
He said that lack of functional primary health care in the rural areas created more burden to the Tertiary Health Institutions where the facilities and the staff that were supposed to be specialists to handle serious ailments were battling with treating malaria and other minor ailments which could have been treated at the Primary Health Care Centres
The Minister described the meeting as a renewed commitment of partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health and the House of Representatives towards achieving the Universal Health Coverage promised by the present administration
The House of Representatives Committee on Education on Wednesday said it had invited the Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, and the Nigeria Medical Association to a meeting over the resumption date for schools.