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Dateline Abuja: Focus On Nigeria’s Health Care Development Plan

Universal Health Coverage is a global system that ensures the provision of healthcare system and financial protection to all citizens in the country. In Nigeria, … Continue reading Dateline Abuja: Focus On Nigeria’s Health Care Development Plan


Ado MohammedUniversal Health Coverage is a global system that ensures the provision of healthcare system and financial protection to all citizens in the country.

In Nigeria, however, the system covers less than 10% of the population and Government is aiming at achieving 30% coverage by December 2015.

How this can be achieved is the issue discussed on this edition of Dateline Abuja.

We host the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Ado Mohammed.

We also bring you a special report on the Gishiri community, a suburb within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, where there has been no health facility.