Health minister Osagie Ehanire says Nigeria produces about 3000 doctors every year, with 1,000 of those relocating abroad.
The Buhari regime has expressed Nigeria’s readiness to become a global hub for manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
Residents of Kwara are said to prefer buying drugs from retailers outside rather than from state-owned hospitals due to cost.
No fewer than 16 deaths and 130 infections have been confirmed since January, the state Commissioner for Health, Sabi’u Gwalabe, disclosed on Friday.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime has disbursed N101 billion to 7,600 primary healthcare facilities from the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund.
However, the report showed that free market policies are depriving some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people of this right.
After reporting 8,176 coronavirus cases the day before, authorities reported around 8,800 more infections nationwide on Thursday.
The executive director also said the agency had implemented strategies to ensure that the COVID-19 vaccines reached the last mile.
“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has given us N200 million, and it is for the purpose of funding indigenous local research in the state.”
The virus circulating in Uganda is the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is no proven vaccine.
