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The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has reaffirmed the national government’s committedness to strengthening Nigeria’s wellness information system, emphasising prevention, preparedness, and collaboration arsenic cardinal to gathering a resilient wellness sector.
Prof. Pate made this known connected Monday portion speaking astatine the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust successful Abuja.
Represented by the Director of Port Health Services, Nse Akpan, the curate described the precocious Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, who sacrificed her beingness to incorporate the 2014 Ebola outbreak successful Nigeria, arsenic a nationalist heroine whose courageousness and professionalism saved millions of lives.
“We retrieve with profound respect Dr. Adadevoh, whose courageous and decisive enactment protected millions of Nigerians. Her sacrifice embodies the highest ideals of aesculapian professionalism and nationalist service,” Prof. Pate said.
“Today, done DRASA’s work, her bequest lives connected arsenic a surviving question for illness prevention and wellness security,” helium added.
The Minister commended DRASA for its decade-long concern with the national authorities successful strengthening corruption prevention and power (IPC), antimicrobial absorption (AMR) response, and nationalist wellness capableness astatine some the nationalist and assemblage levels.
He noted that done DRASA’s support, Nigeria successfully developed its Second One Health AMR National Action Plan and trained implicit 16,000 wellness workers successful corruption prevention and control. He further highlighted DRASA’s occurrence successful mobilising astir 100,000 Health Champions crossed schools, communities, and wellness facilities, an attack helium said demonstrates the powerfulness of grassroots engagement successful nationalist health.
Prof. Pate stressed the value of sustained concern successful preparedness and prevention, informing that the satellite excessively often waits for crises earlier acting.
“Every naira spent connected corruption prevention, hygiene, and antimicrobial absorption power saves galore much successful attraction and economical loss. The rising inclination of drug-resistant infections is simply a soundless pandemic — 1 we indispensable face with urgency,” helium said.
Speaking further, helium outlined the government’s priorities nether the National Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (NHSRII) and the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp), some aimed astatine unifying wellness assemblage efforts, improving superior healthcare, expanding the wellness workforce, boosting section pharmaceutical production, and strengthening exigency preparedness.
The Minister called for an all-of-society attack to wellness security, noting that prevention and preparedness cannot beryllium achieved by the Ministry of Health alone.
“Health information demands progressive information crossed each sectors; finance, environment, education, backstage sector, and the media — arsenic good arsenic from communities and younker who are often the archetypal to observe and respond to wellness threats,” helium said.
Managing Director of DRASA Health Trust, Niniola Williams, expressed gratitude for the government’s enactment and reiterated DRASA’s committedness to advancing Dr. Adadevoh’s bequest done innovation and partnership.
She revealed plans to found a DRASA Academy that volition bid 50,000 further wellness workers successful corruption power and integrate AMR acquisition into each secondary schools crossed Nigeria.
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