HEALTHCARE REFORMS TO STOP MEDICAL TRIPS ABROAD
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In line with the National Strategic Health Development Plan, the Ministry of Health has outlined a Vision to Save One Million Lives and improve the Quality of care in Health Facilities by 2015
1) Improved Access to Primary Health
a) Under the “Save One Million Lives” initiative, over 433,650 lives were saved in 2011 and 2012 by scaling up 6 cost-effective interventions including Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Provision of Essential Commodities, Malaria Control, Routine Immunization / Eradication of Polio.
b) Maternal and Child Health (SURE-P):
• A total of 9243 frontline health workers have been recruited, trained and deployed.
• 1500 primary healthcare facilities have been refurbished and supplied with the essential commodities.
• Maternal mortality has dropped by more than 50% in Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) facilities from 2009 to 2012.
• Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Scheme.
o Launched in May 2013, 172 female beneficiaries have received cash transfers totalling 206,900 from the first pilot ₦ Primary Health Centre.
o Eight States (Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Niger, Ogun, and Zamfara) to roll out CCT Programme as from June 2013.
Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu
2) Improving Tertiary Healthcare
Several teaching hospitals and medical centers have been rehabilitated and modernized e.g. Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and University of Benin Teaching Hospitals.
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The government however recognises there needs to be a push for Private Sector to provide world-class institutions for Nigerians and stop medical visits abroad.
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