The World Health Organisation has warned Nigeria and other countries to prepare for the flu pandemic by increasing budgetary allocation to health and improving the primary healthcare system.
Mulombo said, “Many countries continue to consider health as a luxury or something that is costing the government money, wherein it should have been an enabling factor for socio-economic development. Linked to that is the way countries are dealing with social determinants of health like nutrition, education, environment, water, hygiene, and sanitation.
“If you look at the way spending is being done, you will notice that 80 per cent goes to tertiary hospitals. Yet, primary health care is where 80 per cent of the population gets their first encounter with healthcare services. The spending is distorted and that is the biggest challenge. There is a lack of enough budget even to prepare for the pandemic.
“You know that the COVID-19 pandemic was not the pandemic we expected and we are still expecting the flu pandemic and we have been preparing for that. We know when it will hit. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, no country was ready, not even the United States, not even the United Kingdom, and yet we have international health regulations, we have global health security agenda.
“Our health facilities are not prepared, we need more facilities for dialysis machines and other expensive equipment and our facilities are not prepared to face that challenge. So the challenge of demographic transition is not an easy one because the facilities that were built in the colonial period are still the same. I’m not talking about Nigeria here, I’m talking about the general picture and it may be possible that it is the same situation in Nigeria.”All rights reserved.
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