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Presidential Summit on Universal Health in Nigeria: Excerpts

Shared by PHM Nigeria: --- Forwarded message ---------- From: gbenga adedayo < omindav@yahoo.com > Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:30 PM Subject: Presidential Summit on Universal Health in Nigeria: Excerpts Dear All, This is just to share citation from the one-day presidential summit that held in Abuja on Monday (10th March). Objective of Summit according to the minister of Health: Minister of Health, Professor Oyebuchi Chukwu, said the aim of the summit, among other objectives, was to unlock the opportunities for universally accessible, effective, efficient and equitable healthcare in Nigeria. He stated that the summit was meant to demonstrate government's commitment to achieving universal health coverage in Nigeria. According to him, ensuring health for majority of people would require both availability and accessibility to health infrastructure and services. “The summit is not stopping all current efforts to achieving universal health cov...