By Chioma Obinna
To ensure that Nigeria attains Universal Health Coverage, UHC, healthcare providers have called for decentralisation of primary healthcare in the country even as they maintained that effective health financing remains key to achieving access to care for all Nigerians.
Delivering a keynote address at the Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Healthcare Providers’ Association of Nigeria in Lagos, CEO, Crown Surgery and Medical Service, Lagos, Dr Ebun Sonaiya said decentralising primary healthcare system would guarantee Nigerians at the grassroots access to health care.
Sonaiya said: “Why centralise everything? Everything comes from Abuja. There is the need to decentralise primary healthcare. How can we have primary healthcare agency residing in Abuja? It is called primary and that means it is for the grassroots and all the money for it must go to the grassroots.
“That will provide access to health…
