According to the minister, Nigeria’s health sector is guided by Vision 20:2020.
The DG announced that both the SSS and the police have pledged their support to ensure that the NNRA effectively carries out its statutory responsibilities.
The government had also proposed that from 2026, citizens would be entitled to at least one free annual health check-up or screening.
He said a protest against the Tinubu-led administration is “a protest against Nigeria’s health sector.”
The Kano State Commissioner for Health, Abubakar Labaran, said the state would assist smaller drug dealers to acquire shops at the CWC.
“To change things, we must win the people’s trust, confidence and acceptance of government’s health interventions to save lives and reduce illness.”
The Buhari regime has expressed Nigeria’s readiness to become a global hub for manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, to fashion out ways of preventing flood disaster in Nigeria within 90 days.
WHO notes that Nigeria has made remarkable progress in malaria control, with a decline in prevalence from 42 per cent in 2010 to 23 per cent in 2018.
“Private importation of COVID-19 vaccines has not been authorised due to reports of substandard, falsified vaccines.”
