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November 6, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigerian MedicalAssociation, NMA to find better ways of improving healthcare service deliveryto Nigerians.
He gave the task at the second National Health Summit,NHS and the 25th Commonwealth Medical Association Triennial Conference inAbuja, with the theme; “Patient Centered Care, PCC”.
The President said patients are at the centre ofhealthcare service delivery and must be accorded confidentiality and duerespect. He said lack of medical equipment, poor environment and lack ofconfidentiality were capable of damaging the health system, noting that mindsetcould be used to fix the system, not necessarily money.
Chairman of the occasion, Former Head of State,General Yakubu Gowon said he was happy that the association had taken it uponitself, the responsibility of mobilising human resources that would add to thepolicy thrust of government.
Also the Chief co-host, Governor Abdullahi Sule ofNasarawa State said the summit was an opportunity to shape the healthcaresection of the country.
The Association’s President, Francis Faduyile saidPatient Centered Care is all about putting the individual patients first in allconsiderations regarding care.