They made the call on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the 9th Annual General Meeting (AGM), and Scientific Conference of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja.
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The professionals made this call at the opening ceremony of the 9th Annual General Meeting , and Scientific Conference of theSpeaking at the event, the Medical Director, FMC Abuja, Saad Ahmed, urged for lower tariffs on medical equipment imported into the country, noting that this would reduce the cost of treatment for patients who must incur out-of-pocket expenses to access medical care.
Speaking further, he advised authorities, health providers, and professionals to invest more in the prevention of disease, saying this will keep people from having to make out-of-pocket expenses in the long term.“We need to invest more in prevention, especially for immunisable diseases such as cholera, and measles, we need to prevent all that. By that, we would have solved about 60 per cent of the problem,” he said.
“One wonders what our health indices will look like in a couple of years from now if the economic situation is not squarely addressed,” she said. According to him, the recession is driving more population of the country to traditional medicine practitioners who provide them with cheaper options. He pointed out that an effective way to ensure the safety of the people is to effectively supervise the activities of the practitioners.He further noted that the overdependence of citizens on tertiary institutions for health issues that should be treated at the Primary Health Centres is proof that the country’s health system is in crisis.
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