The trend of embarking on expensive office projects for government agencies to the detriment of the health sector is a phenomenon that has plagued Nigeria for many years.
The heads of state of African Union countries on April 2001 met in Nigeria and pledged to set a target of allocating at least 15 per cent of their annual budget to improve the health sector. The resolution is known as the Abuja Declaration.
He also pledged to invest in cutting-edge technology such as tele-medicine in all major health centres in the country through partnership programmes with communities and the private sector and increase the quality of all Federal Government-owned hospitals to world-class standard by 2019. Amid all of these, multimillion naira offices of several, duplicated government agencies litter the Federal Capital Territory while federal teaching hospitals are in a sorry state.
The Fund, according to its website, existed only as a desk in the Department of Petroleum Resources until 2000, when it became a fully functional agency of government. An origami-style canopy forms the mouth of the majestic building, an unconventional structure with deep blue window panes that seem to go on endlessly.
Founded about 131 years ago by city merchant, banker/financier, civic leader and philanthropist Johns Hopkins , the Johns Hopkins Hospital and its school of medicine are considered to be the founding institutions of modern American medicine and the birthplace of numerous famous medical traditions, including rounds, residents and house staff.
Outside the US, the hospital also has a facility in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and a sports medicine clinic in Toronto, Canada, as well as a campus in London, which is scheduled to open in 2021. According to findings, the hospital is a large National Health Service teaching hospital in Central London, England. Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided health care freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century.
For instance, one of such private hospitals is St Nicholas Hospital located on Lagos Island. Founded about 52 years ago a gynaecologist and obstetrician, Moses Majekodunmi, also an ex-Minister of Health in the First Republic, the hospital has facilities at different locations in the country. It has recorded laudable feats renal transplant in Nigeria.
The CMA president stated that there was no reason health, consistently, would be behind several other sectors, adding that, going forward, health should be number one.“Currently, what is the incentive even now that we are battling COVID-19 in terms of hazard allowance? They have a miserable hazard allowance of N5, 000 monthly paid to health workers in Nigeria and that has been since 2009.
“In the UK, for instance, the health budget is, more often than not, higher than even the budget for Defence because of the way they value their health. The statistics are all there. The National Health Service, for instance, has one of the most profound budgets anywhere in the world,” he said. “That is the area of wastage that we should look at. The National Assembly do not empathise with ordinary Nigerian people by spending so much money in acquiring unearned comfort for themselves by ordering 2020 Toyota Camry.
“And at the end of the day, when challenges are being faced, you find that that lack of priority shows itself and the non-performance of what has been done is the case. In the health sector, in particular, and to a certain extent education, there is already a road map to follow. “Cuba has one of the best medical services in the world. They have a life expectancy rate, which, in fact, is at par with advanced countries like Canada, the United States, Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark, as well as New Zealand.
Musa said, “Things have been allowed to reach this level that we have lost control. We only wait for the worst. The level of incompetence in every respect is clear that you can’t really hope for anything. “The attempt to try and hang it on the current government is just a vicious political gambit which obviously would fail on any rational observation. It’s nothing new about our poor health architecture.
He said, “I think this government in power should start a plan, but the whole country should put hands together and not start a blame game, which is meaningless in the circumstance. So, we have a poor health system in this country — totally inadequate.”He stated, “One, supposing somebody has his own money, you cannot stop him because that would be in breach of his human rights.
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