Apart from security, there may be no other sector of Nigeria’s national economy that has been hard hit in the past two years than the health sector.
Unlike its initial clumsy and snail-paced response to the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, the Nigerian government through the presidential steering committee, the, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency as well as agencies in some of the sub-national units, took numerous urgent steps and activated various policies geared towards the containment of the contagion.
The Director-General of NCDC, Ifedayo Adefila, in a statement noted that the rise in infections has been linked to both the Delta and the recently discovered Omicron variants of the rampaging virus. It was the fourth and longest industrial action by doctors since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.NARD first protested against the delayed payment of salaries and allowances, the non-implementation of life insurance for doctors treating patients with COVID-19; non-funding of their residency programme, hazard allowances and some other unpaid arrears before finally embarking on the strike action.
It was not the first time authorities of foreign countries would enter Nigeria to hunt for medical professionals. The Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, in 2019 had controversially claimed the country had ‘enough’ medical doctors to attend to the needs of Nigerians but did not provide any evidence to back his claims.
As NCDC director-general, Mr Ihekweazu had led the response to large outbreaks of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, Lassa fever and monkeypox. The two-day annual conference concluded with a resolution for a deliberate investment on Nigeria’s health security starting with drawing support for pharmaceutical and research agencies to produce locally developed vaccines.
The year also saw a lot of international aid organisations withdrawing their funding for several health issues they initially supported. Immediate past Chairman, Lagos Medical Guild, Sodipo Oluwajimi, spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the performance of the health sector in 2021, and some expectations for 2022.
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