The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has advised state Commissioners for Health in the South West to use the $1.5 million “Save One Million Lives” fund to revitalise primary healthcare facilities.
 
Adewole gave the advice on Friday in Lagos at an awareness meeting on the pperationalisation of the recently launched “Save One Million Lives Programme for Results” in the zone.
 
The meeting was organised for Commissioners for Health in Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Kwara and Oyo States.
 

“Non-implementation of the National Health Act 2014 which provides for not less than one per cent Consolidated Revenue Fund as basic health care provision fund has further worsened the travail of the health sector particularly at the grass roots, where the greater burden of the health disease resides. It has also added to the financial burden of the citizens in their quest to seek quality health care which in most cases is non-existent” – NMA President, Prof. Mike Ogirima