With an efficient healthcare delivery that ensures citizens’ rapid access to critical and emergency Primary Health Care services, Nigeria’s fragile system is swiftly mutating to a robust one while struggling like every other country across the globe to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While there are issues that need to be addressed, there are individuals, both in government and the private sector, who are breaking barriers and defying odds to fix the rot and bring the nation’s health sector at par with advanced countries. One of them is Dr Faisal Shuaib. The NPHCDA is ensuring that cities are liveable, that people have control over their health, and that Nigeria, Africa’s biggest entity, pulls through COVID-19 and a polluted planet where diseases like cancer, asthma, heart diseases among others are rapidly increasing.
Shuaib plans to transform the under-resourced system in Nigeria by leveraging private sector, international agencies and government collaborations. This strategy, which seeks to remodel the PHC system by 2030, would not only reverse the besetting national challenges but also revamp the system for future generations.
Keep on deceiving yourselves, you have marched backward 100 years
Tackle the problem of our health workers traveling overseas for greener pastures