Nigeria's government launches NigComHealth, a digital healthcare service, to reduce medical tourism and improve access to quality medical services for all Nigerians.
In a move to reduce medical tourism by Nigerians, the Federal Government has unveiled a new digital healthcare service, NigComHealth, a timely solution that could ensure that quality healthcare services are available to all Nigerians, irrespective of their locations.
Speaking at the launch of the project developed by the Nigeria Communications Satellite Ltd yesterday, in Abuja, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, said that the practice of medical tourism, where the more privileged Nigerians travel abroad for better medical service is hoped to reduce drastically through the NigComHealth programme, where easy access to first class medical practitioners would be made available to all Nigerians via NigComHealth digital Platform.
He said, “As we are all aware, comparative to other developed nations, our healthcare system is still underdeveloped in terms of telemedicine, outreach and accessibility to quality healthcare services by the vast number of our communities, especially those residents in rural and remote areas. To bridge the gap, there is urgent need to leverage the disruptive technology to improve access to healthcare services and quality medical practitioners available within Nigeria and across the globe.
“Based on the data from the Nigeria Health Facility Registry , Nigeria has a total of 39,914 operational hospitals and clinics. This number combines private and public hospitals across the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of care. Closely related, the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency , Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has said that 70 per cent of Nigerians presently live in the rural areas where the hospital facility closest to them are primary healthcare centres.
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