Coordinating minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, and the chief medical director, Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), Prof Robinson Onoh, have called for government and private sector participation in the provision of rural health facilities to curb the high morbidity rate in rural areas. They made the call during the commissioning and handing-over of the Amaewula Cottage Hospital, Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki AE-FUTHA Annex by the Institute of Genomics and Global Health, IGH. Speaking at the commissioning, the minister of health, represented by the chief Epidemiologist of Nigeria, Dr Ganiyu Jamiu, said that the project is a government-private sector partnership, adding that the present administration is committed to partnering with the private sector to ensure quality healthcare for rural communities.
He said the present administration of President Bola Tinubu is committed to ensuring qualitative healthcare for all Nigerians, especially those at the grassroots, adding that they will continue to support the private sector in keying into the present administration’s healthcare programmes. “We expect that other organisations and agencies should emulate this gesture of the IGH and begin to look at constructing such hospitals in our rural communities to reduce the incidences of death occasioned by lack of health facilities. “We are calling on the community to ensure the protection of this facility.
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