Minister of
Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said Nigerians, living with certain medical
conditions that require major surgeries but have been unable to seek healthcare
services due to the cost have been directed to visit any Federal Teaching
Hospital and or medical centre for free treatment.
The directive
was given in line with the operations of the Rapid Response Initiative, RRI,
which was inaugurated earlier this year to perform not less than 10,000 free
surgeries on poor Nigerians.
Adewole gave
the directive, yesterday, during a media interactive session at the just
concluded Kuchigoro Primary Healthcare Centre, Abuja.
“The only
qualification you have is that you must be poor and we’ll do those surgeries
that really put people in discomfort, myomectomy cleft lips, even VVF, many of
these are being handled across the country in about 46 specialist centres,” he
said.
Conducting a
tour round the Kuchigoro health facility, the minister disclosed that about
N550 million had been earmarked for the revitalization of the first phase of
primary health care centres, adding that the project was important to the
Federal Government as it strives to tackle maternal and child mortality in the
country.
Source: Vanguard
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