Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu
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Minister
of Health, Prof. Oyebuchi Chukwu, has said there is a need for the
private sector contribution to the realisation of the Millennium
Development Goal by 2015.
He said this on Saturday in Abuja at the 16th annual general meeting of the Guild of Medical Directors, Abuja chapter.
Guild of medical directors is a body of private medical practitioners.
The News Agency of Nigeria
reports that the minister said there was an increase in the recognition
of the role of the private sector in the attainment of the global
target.
“This has been demonstrated by many
partnerships between the United Nations, its agencies and the organised
private sector,” he added.
Chukwu said the Federal Government had
embarked on the reforms of the health sector, with the aim of improving
the health status of Nigerians through the development of a sustainable
health care delivery system.
The minister said, “A core component of
the ministry’s current focus is to mobilise and harness all resources
across both public and private sectors for the benefit of the populace.
These efforts are geared towards attaining the Millennium Development
Goals and other national health targets.”
He explained that the MDGs were intended
to bring together developing and developed countries in partnership to
reduce poverty, ensure gender equality, combat environmental degradation
and ensure improved access to social services.
He added that this would help to ensure
good education, maternal health care, safe drinking water, sanitation,
combat of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases.
Chukwu pointed out that the Federal
Government was poised to meet the target, adding that it had formulated
policies and strategies that would speed up the process of achieving the
target.
He decried the low level of private
sector contribution to health care delivery service, adding that the
sector was not taking advantage of its public private partnership
policy.
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