The late lawmaker who hailed from Yobe State died at the National Hospital Abuja on July 14, 2025, after a brief illness at 73.
Over the next 18 months, 30 Nigerian patients are expected to receive world-class immunotherapy treatment at no cost.
The Federal Capital Territory has placed 61,384 people living with HIV/AIDS on treatment.
“If it was not for the brain drain affecting our workforce, we would be talking about 3,000 today,” the CMD stated.
Mr Raji told journalists on Sunday in Abuja that most health workers went abroad in search of better working conditions.
The mandate secretary said that the first case was of a 14-month old female.
“We have a limited number of paediatric anaesthetists in Nigeria. However, there is a need to educate other anaesthetists who also care for children.”
“Or we can go for graded privatisation where they sell 51 per cent of the shares. Of course, they should fix it up a bit so that it could fetch some money.”
The consultant paediatrician said humanity was not out of the woods yet as COVID-19 could affect multiple organs in the body.
Some of the experts, however, acknowledged that most orthodox medicines were derived from plant extract.
