FG urges stakeholders to support healthcare for 70 per cent rural dwellers

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The Federal Government has called on all stakeholders particularly governments at sub-national levels, to come on board and acknowledge the value of taking healthcare closer to the people.

It acknowledged the fact that most citizens in poor and rural areas, with very modest health needs, will not have the resources to pursue healthcare in the big city because of them, large, fancy, glamorous hospitals in the far-away capital city, is unreachable.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire while delivering his Keynote address at the World Press Conference on Primary Health Care Summit on Tuesday in Abuja, therefore maintained that this is why the government at the national level…



Source: Nigerian Tribune