Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said Nigerians, living with
certain medical conditions that require major surgeries but have been
unable to seek healthcare services due to the cost have been directed to
visit any Federal Teaching Hospital and or medical centre for free
treatment.
The directive was given in line with the operations of
the Rapid Response Initiative, RRI, which was inaugurated earlier this
year to perform not less than 10,000 free surgeries on poor Nigerians.
Adewole
gave the directive, yesterday, during a media interactive session at
the just concluded Kuchigoro Primary Healthcare Centre, Abuja.
“The
only qualification you have is that you must be poor and we’ll do those
surgeries that really put people in discomfort, myomectomy cleft lips,
even VVF, many of these are being handled across the country in about 46
specialist centres,” he said.
Conducting a tour round the
Kuchigoro health facility, the minister disclosed that about N550
million had been earmarked for the revitalization of the first phase of
primary health care centres, adding that the project was important to
the Federal Government as it strives to tackle maternal and child
mortality in the country.
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