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Retaining health care professionals is an important objective. Survey shows looming brain drain in Nigeria's health sector in the rising trend of emigration of healthcare personnel – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, laboratory scientists, physiotherapists and many others have difficulty getting into paid employment. Many fresh doctors, out of ...
The House Committee on Health was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria under the provisions of legislative decrees to oversee the nation's health institutions and ensure effective healthcare delivery. Tasked with legislative oversight, the committee evaluates the performance of health facilities, formulates policies to enhance ...
The agency is mandated to strengthen Nigeria's primary healthcare system, ensuring equitable access to essential health services, promoting immunization, and coordinating national health programs. It also mobilizes resources, fosters partnerships, and develops community-based health systems to improve overall healthcare delivery nationwide. [6]
In Nigeria, the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women is 1 in 22. [6] The country has restrictive abortion laws, limiting access to safe procedures and increasing risks associated with unsafe abortions. [11] A 2019 study highlighted insufficient skills in emergency obstetric care among healthcare providers. [12]
The Family Health department is concerned with creating awareness on reproductive, maternal and neonatal and child health, ensuring sound nutrition including infant and young child feeding, and care of the elderly and adolescents. The department of Public Health coordinates formulation, implementation and evaluation of public health policies ...
Health care delivery in Nigeria is a concurrent responsibility of the three tiers of government in the country, and the private sector. [260] Nigeria has been reorganising its health system since the Bamako Initiative of 1987, which formally promoted community-based methods of increasing accessibility of drugs and health care services to the ...
Health security is a concept or framework for public health issues which includes protection of national populations from external health threats such as pandemics. [ 4 ] Four types of security may be considered in this context: biosecurity ; global health security; human security ; and national security .
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is the national public health institute for Nigeria. [1] It is a federal government agency under the Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria), with its headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. [2] [3]