[FILES] A baby receives a dose of the RTS,S vaccine for malaria. Credit: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty/NatureThe group noted that Nigeria at 62 is another opportunity to start afresh and reposition the nation’s healthcare system to provide quality, accessible and affordable healthcare services for Nigerians.
What do we want to see in terms of our health for all Nigerians, access to health, provision of up-to-date functional health facilities and funding for research.” Ipinmoye, who decried the poor funding of the health sector, urged the Federal Government to make a commitment to implement the 2001 Abuja Declaration by allocating 15 per cent of our annual budget for the health sector so that we can begin to generate wealth because health is wealth.