The association said a national emergency should be declared in the health sector against the proposed compulsory five-year service by the House of Representatives.
Mrs Soludo noted that the essence of the free exercise is to eliminate the heavy financial burden it will cost the poor and low income families to get their kids vaccinated.
The spending itself is distorted. That is the biggest challenge that has generated everything that we have seen.
This was the first time since September 16, 2022, that daily cases had crossed the 6,000 mark.
Mr Ghebreyesus said in the past 20 years alone, smoking has fallen by a third, maternal mortality has fallen by a third and child mortality has halved.
The management of Government Secondary School (GSS) Jeda, Kuje area council has converted the health centre within the school into classrooms.
The bill is part of the measures by the Nigerian government to halt the increasing number of medical doctors leaving Nigeria for other countries in search of ‘greener pastures’.
The programme is a joint collaboration between the state Ministries of Education and Health.
The government had on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to raise public awareness of the virus’s threat and urge people to take precautions against it.
Statistics underscored the possibility that COVID-19, directly and indirectly, contributed to the increase in excess mortality.
