{"id":62184,"date":"2018-05-14T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62184"},"modified":"2018-05-14T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:48:21","slug":"saraki-seeks-review-of-nigerias-primary-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/saraki-seeks-review-of-nigerias-primary-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Saraki Seeks Review of Nigeria&#8217;s Primary Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria to provide Universal Healthcare for all its citizens, its current<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">disjointed healthcare set-up must be urgently reviewed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Print Media,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Chuks Okocha, stated this when Executive Director of the National Primary<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, briefed the leadership<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of the Senate on the Community Health Influencers, Promoters and Service<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">providers (CHIPS) &#8211; a programme of the agency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was a governor in my state for eight years and I have practical<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">experience. If we have these pockets of projects scattered across<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">different programs in the healthcare sector we will not achieve what we<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">are meant to achieve.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe must have something that is sustainable \u2014 something that we are sure<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">will always be maintained, always have provisions for human resources and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">always have adequate funding. This must be a holistic approach,&#8221; Saraki<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Saraki also challenged the Executive Director and all agencies under the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Federal Ministry of Health to come up with a comprehensive programme that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">integrates all existing healthcare programmes in the country under one<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">umbrella for better coordination and funding.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe National Assembly will ensure that the health sector gets 1% of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) for healthcare. However, right now, I am<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">told that one of the major issues that is coming up is where exactly that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">money is going to be housed. There must be a clear message on how these<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">funds will be applied.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhat should guide all our decisions and actions and programmes is that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">every Nigerian deserves universal and affordable healthcare \u2014 particularly<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">at the primary healthcare level.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor a country with our size, our economy, and our kind of GDP, primary<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">healthcare must happen. We have no excuse as a country and as a government<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that every Nigerian cannot go and get primary healthcare.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We owe primary healthcare to all Nigerians. Citizens who cannot afford to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">feed themselves now also have the challenge of trying to pay for primary<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">healthcare. This is unacceptable. We must be able to say that you can<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">worry about anything else, but primary healthcare must not be something<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that you worry about as a citizen of Nigeria,\u201d Saraki said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib also commended the President of the Senate for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">his\u00a0 leadership in ensuring that 1% of the consolidated revenue fund is<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">appropriated towards primary healthcare in the 2018 budget.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is an unprecedented show of leadership that will lead to the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">provision of basic healthcare to millions of Nigerians. This is something<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that we have yearned for for several decades. Thank you very much Mr.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Senate President,\u201d Dr. Faisal said.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that for Nigeria to provide Universal Healthcare for all its citizens, its current disjointed healthcare set-up must be urgently reviewed.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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