'FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES SECOND NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN
By Tosin Ogunyemi June
21, 2018
World Health Organization
The federal government Thursday launched the second National
Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP) to deepen healthcare service delivery
in the country.
The new NSHDP was initiated after the first plan came to an
end in 2015 after a five-year period.
Lauching the new plan at the ongoing National Council on
Health (NCH) in Kano State, Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, explained
that the five-year plan will help to foster efficient healthcare services
across the country.
Adewole said, “I am glad to inform you that the long awaited
Second National Strategic Health Development Plan is now ready. Nigeria now has
another well-articulated and robust plan, which is the product of vigorous and
extensive work by government and all our stakeholders.”
He added that in view of the significance of the NHDP II in
the realisation of government’s goal of increasing access, improving health
outcomes and achieving universal health coverage remain strategic in the
provision of adequate healthcare around the country.
Also, the government also gave official approval for the
establishment of traditional and alternative medicine department in the Federal
Ministry of Health.
The approval for the establishment of the department, which
was given by the Office of the Head of Service (HOS) will for the first time
give official recognition to traditional African medicine in the country.
Adewole informed the council that “the new department will
provide leadership in our effort to give prominence to traditional medicine in
Nigeria.
According to him, “We encourage Honorable Commissioners to
follow through and facilitate the establishment of Department of Traditional,
Complimentary & Alternative Medicine at the state level.”
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Enahire, and
the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Clement Uwaifo, also
made presentations on Universal Health Care (UHC) and health care management.
In another development, the minister alongside the Emir of
Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, and the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje,
commissioned TB Mobile detection facility at the Muhammadu Buhari Specialist
Hospital Kano, Kano State.
They also launched Access to Care for Enrollee of Kano State
Contributory Health Scheme (KSCHS), Free Breast Cancer Screening Programme for
1,000 women as well as distribution of Laptops and Internet Modems to Roll Back
Malaria (RBM) Officers in the State.
Speaking about the projects, the minister said: “people like
you make my work easy, while some called on me to help them but the message
from your Excellency is come and see what we are doing.”
He added that the “Wellness on Wheels (WoW) programme on TB
was aimed at providing diagnostic facility and treatment to Tuberculosis
patients at their door step” adding that, “Nigeria was one of the countries
with large number of undetected TB patients in the world, Nigeria detected only
25%, the remaining 75% patients were not known and they also did not know that
they were TB Patients.”
Governor Ganduje explained that the rationale behind
establishing Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital was to provide services not
only to the Kano State populace, but to tge entire country.
He said, “Our intention is not only to serve the people of
Kano State but to make Kano center of medical tourism in order to reduce
foreign medical tourism”
The Emir of Kano, Sanusi II called on Nigerians, especially
the wealthy, to support government at all levels with health facilities and
health equipment as government alone cannot cater for the need of all Nigerians
in the health sector.'
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