Experts Meet in Abuja over  Women’s Healthcare

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Isaac Adewole

Udora Orizu in Abuja

As part of the efforts to ensure that the Nigerian women become proactive players in the drive to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Prompt Home Health in collaboration with Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria has invited all stakeholders to Abuja for a symposium on the way forward.

The symposium titled “The Nigerian Woman and Healthcare,” according to the organisers, will have the key decision makers, stakeholders, policy makers, representatives from National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS); Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, and other stakeholders in attendance.

In an interview with THISDAY, the Managing Director of Prompt Home Health, Ike Okoye, said that Nigeria’s healthcare system is saddening, adding that it is high time the government commenced the implementation of reforms.

He explained that the reason for the focus on Nigerian women is because they bear the most burden of…



Source: Thisday Newspaper