According to the Minister of Budget
and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, the Federal government will be investing ₦9
billion in order to upgrade the health facilities of hospitals in Nigeria, in
order to reduce the number of trips made to other countries as a result of
health challenges.He said this on Tuesday
while he was speaking with civil society organizations.
The Minister said: “What the
ministry of health is doing is going into partnership
with the private sector
and tertiary institutions, with the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority.
The idea is to upgrade a number
of hospitals by getting first class facilities to have the best practice.
We have some of the best doctors
everywhere in the world; so, apart from the local ones, we want to entice some
doctors in the Diaspora to also come back.
One of the constraints they keep
on telling us when we tell them to return is that the facilities are not good
enough; so, we want to upgrade the facilities so that they can come back."
The Minister said that he
believes Nigeria has enough talents to serve in this Hospitals with efficient
facilities in place, backing up his point by the fact that Nigerians still
perform better in any of the Universities in the world.
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