The Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin has disclosed that a Presidential Summit on Health would be held in October as part of the Federal Government’s efforts to improve the health care system.
Professor Osotimehin also informed that the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s administration had concluded plans to upgrade four teaching hospitals to international standard before the end of this year.
Speaking at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory recently, the minister added that the government would also upgrade seven specialist hospitals in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Enugu and Abeokuta respectively.
He listed the four hospitals that would be upgraded to first class facilities as the National Hospital, Abuja; University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan; Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria and the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu.
Similarly, Professor Osotimehin said the Federal Executive Council had approved the provision of new technologies for various hospitals to upgrade them in the country, including the National Orthopaedic Hospitals in Igbobi, Lagos and Dala in Kano respectively.
The minister explained that the government’s efforts were aimed at building people’s confidence in the nation’s hospitals and reduces their travelling abroad for medical treatment.
According to him, travelling overseas for medical treatment by Nigerians was not solution to the country’s health care problems.
Professor Osotimehin who maintained that many Nigerian hospitals now have facilities for the treatment of most illness and diseases commonly referred abroad, stressed the need to increase the awareness about the facilities for the benefit of the people.
He also informed that the Federal Government was “devoting resources to building human capacity to do these things”, adding that “it is not enough for you
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