FG Urges Stakeholders To Support Healthcare For 70 Per Cent Rural Dwellers
The Federal Government has called on all stakeholders particularly governments at sub-national levels, to come on board and acknowledge the value of taking healthcare closer to the people.
It acknowledged the fact that most citizens in poor and rural areas, with very modest health needs, will not have the resources to pursue healthcare in the big city because of them, large, fancy, glamorous hospitals in the far-away capital city, is unreachable.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire while delivering his Keynote address at the World Press Conference on Primary Health Care Summit on Tuesday in Abuja, therefore maintained that this is why the government at the national level eagerly look forward to other stakeholders from other sectors to join hand in making people healthier by supporting the effort of 70% rural dwellers with modest health centres.
Ehanire further pointed out that the recent experience with the Polio Eradication Initiative, the COVID-19 response, and the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, confirms that when together stakeholders pool attention and resources we achieve a collective goal.
