The topic was reportedly selected by President Muhammadu Buhari to attain UHC. The president directed the course participants to find solution to the challenges of funding for health service delivery in Nigeria.
Mr Usman, a professor, said the president was very concerned with the burden of out-of-pocket spending for health.Tunji Bello, the secretary to the Lagos State Government, while receiving the visitors in his office described as apt, the theme for the study. Mr Bello, Adesina Odeyemi, the state’s permanent secretary, and some heads of health institutions in the state had a brief meeting with the visitors. They discussed the challenges of funding for health.For a country to attain UHC, it must reduce out-of-pocket spending especially for its poor and indigent citizens to the barest minimum.
THISDAY Newspaper reported that the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, while delivering a lecture to the participants of this year’s NIPSS course few weeks ago said the greatest challenge of the Nigerian health system was out-of-pocket expenditure.During the meeting in Lagos, Adetokumbo Fabamwo, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, said 70 per cent of Nigerians spend out-of-pocket for health.
“According to him, this is one of the most serious challenges we face as a nation which was why directed us to do a research and appropriately advise him. “It our hope that at the end of the programme, the report that will be submitted to the government will contain key recommendations and strategies for implementation of a better funding mechanism for health.”
Ds government is a joke,wen d president himself spend more dan any person in d country
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