THE Federal Government has lamented the missing links in the tertiary, secondary and primary levels of healthcare sector under the health emergency cases.
National programme manager of the National Emergency Medical Service and Ambulance System (NEMSAS), Dr Saidu Ahmed Dambulwa, in his presentation at the meeting with the National Emergency Medical Treatment Committee (NEMTC) and other stakeholders said when emergency occurs, transporting the victim to the nearby health facility as well as who pays the medical bill always constitute the missing links.
Dambulwa said that when NEMTC and NEMSAS are fully operationalised, not only will the missing link be taken care of, healthcare delivery in Nigeria will become more affordable.
At the meeting, discussions were based on the need to fully operationalise NEMSA so that Nigerians could benefit; train the trainers programme to be introduced in order to build capacity both at the state and national levels to include the 774 local government areas in Nigeria just as close monitoring trend should be instituted, especially at the primary healthcare level.
Also, the periodic auditing of the exercise/NEMSA programme to encourage efficiency, productivity and sustainability of the programme also top the agenda and the need for media personnel to be given the requisite training on how to handle health-related emergencies.
Health-related bills and tariffs at all levels should be reviewed to accommodate current realities on ground, among others.
NEMSAS, SEMSAS and private medical health providers were optimistic that when the programme is fully operationalised, healthcare delivery in Nigeria would be enhanced.
“At least, six states, including Yobe, Kano, Rivers, Sokoto, Ekiti and Anambra have shown interest to kickstart the programme in their respective states.
The two-day stakeholders’ meeting which was approved by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO), was coordinated by the National Programme Manager of NEMSAS.
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The PDP spokesman recalled how the opposition party had on various occasions alerted that the APC government had ceded sovereignty over a large portion of our country to terrorists, “many of whom were imported into our country by the APC.”
He further stated: “From the video, in a brazen manner, terrorists as non-state actors boldly showed their faces, boasting, admitting and confirming their participation in the Kuje Prison break, some of whom were former prison inmates who were either jailed or awaiting trial for their previous terrorism act against our country.
“Nigerians can equally recall the confession by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai that the APC government knows the plans and whereabouts of the terrorists but failed to act.
According to Ologunagba, about 18,000 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists between 2020 and 2022 “as the criminals continue to be emboldened by the failures and obvious complicity of the APC and to which the PDP had always drawn attention.”
“This is not politics; this is about humanity and leadership, which leadership sadly and unfortunately is missing in our country at this time,” he said.
The PDP added that it is appalled by “the lame response by the apparently helpless, clueless and deflated Buhari Presidency, wherein it told an agonizing nation that President Buhari “has done all and even more than what was expected of him as Commander in Chief by way of morale, material and equipment support to the military…”
“This is a direct admission of incapacity and failure by the Buhari Presidency and the APC. At such a time, in other climes, the President directly leads the charge and takes drastic measures to rescue and protect his citizens.
“In time of adversity, the President transmutes into Consoler-in-Chief to give hope and succour to the citizens. Painfully, Nigeria does not have a President who cares and can stand as Consoler-in-Chief to the citizens.
“It has now become very imperative for Nigerians to take note and realize that the only solution to this unfortunate situation is to hold the APC government accountable. We must come together as a people, irrespective of our political, ethnic and religious affiliations to resist the fascist-leaning tendencies of the APC administration.
Ologunagba called for an urgent meeting of the National Council of State to advise on the way to go over the nation’s worsening insecurity.
“Our nation must not fall. The resilient Nigerian spirit and ‘can-do- attitude’ must be rekindled by all to prevail on the President to immediately and without further delay, accede to the demand by the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians to convene a special session of the National Council of State to find a lasting solution since the President has, in his own admission, come to his wit’s end,” the PDP spokesman declared.
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