Federal Government restates resolve to achieving effective healthcare delivery

    The Federal government has restated its resolve to achieve effective healthcare delivery by nurturing primary healthcare development towards achieving Universal Health Coverage, UHC, in the country by fostering healthy Public Private Partnership, PPP collaboration.

   Disclosing this in Abuja at a stakeholder’s meeting with key players in the health sector, the Vice President, Prof. YemiOsibajo, said a comprehensive National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, would ensure quality healthcare delivery in the country.
   The Vice President stressed the need for a comprehensive National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, to ensure quality healthcare delivery to the citizenry.
  Earlier, in his welcome address, the Minister of State for Health, Dr.OsagieEhanire, said that the Federal Ministry of Health had embraced the PPP initiative to leverage on the assets, competencies, resources, network and innovation of the sector to accelerate improvement in health outcomes.
   He reaffirmed that the service delivery innovation challenge was unprecedented in that it was the first time the Nigerian health sector had taken this approach to private sector engagements, stressing that Nigeria was the first Global Financing Facility, GFF, country to define a clear pathway for integrating the private sector into its Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health plus nutritional service delivery in Nigeria.