Speaking in an interview on Friday, Akinrogunde said most of the primary healthcare centres in Nigeria were not functioning.
“If you value the life of a Nigerian without exception, which is basically what primary healthcare is talking about, it should be health that can be assessed by all regardless of the geographical placement,” he said.
“It is appalling how people handle some disease conditions. If somebody has for example a condition like diarrhea, the simple thing to do is to go to the hospital, especially in the local areas which is the focus of primary healthcare but most of the facilities that we have are not functioning.“A recent statistic which is generally referred to now shows that out of the 30,000 healthcare institutions across the country, just about 20 percent of them are said to be functioning optimally.