Nigeria: Whither Health Sector in 2014?

19 December 2013

Nigeria's health care delivery system is beset with a number of problems and instead of policy makers concentrating on fixing them, the last one year had been spent on petty squabbles and bickering with patients at the receiving end, Paul Obi writes

In 2013, Nigeria's health care sector witnessed great feats in different fronts. But it was also a year that was characterised by time-wasting conferences and long speeches on how to make health care service delivery work. A large part of the year was spent on the streets, where health workers protested better welfare packages, recognition and independence from alleged 'marginalisation'. It was a year where rather than strengthen health care services, efforts were regrettably made towards strangulating it through strikes.

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