Increasing population: Upscaling investments in Nigeria’s public health system
As Nigeria’s population continues to record geometric increase, the demands for healthcare have, indisputably, been on the high side. Such demands have evidently put pressure on the capacities of the existing public health system which overshadows the health sector in the Country. Since, public health system cannot be jettisoned or its place relinquished from the prime role of the Government to cater for, it is only obtainable that investment in the system to improve on the medical provisions is non negotiable, to change the prevailing narratives towards the height of reliability and virility.
Investing in research for innovations and inventions to boost development in Nigeria remains a course which is resoundingly significant to put Nigeria in the limelight of meaningful definitions of a modern nation of a civilised entity of the 21st Century. The categorisation of Nigeria within the corridor of the third world nations, has its expression borne by the clogging of backward state of sectoral profile of endeavours in the Country. The health sector is one in this category. Ravaged with deficiencies, it has continued to put the profile of healthcare in the Country under the categorisation of poor management, such that its place in the human capital index of the Country do not reflect any positivity for better narratives. The nausea of the defects ravaging the sector has left behind unsavoury conditions which have been the grounds for several phenomena, including the narratives of incessant industrial actions and brain-drain among others.
The paucity of uncoordinated efforts to develop responsive systems that proactively cater for parameters that leave on ground an architecture that propel research for innovations and inventions in the sector have been a major bane. The deficiencies notwithstanding, it is observable that there are still intellectuals and patriotic experts committed to breaking grounds in the sector despite all odds. Against all odds, there are experts in the field within the Country, who are committed to making things happen for better narratives of the profiling of the sector. The need for incentives and positive interventions to encourage such drive is pertinent to keep hope alive among experts in the field. By initiating such incentives to create enabling environment for health experts and stakeholders to further delve into adventurous courses for inventions and innovations, a close move towards changing the narratives of the increasing desertion of the sector by health workers who go to seek greener pastures abroad, would significantly begin to take the evidence of reality.
The necessity to begin to work along the lines of coordinated interventions to boost sectoral performance in the Country is paramount to lift the Country from the scourge of deficiencies which, by compounding impacts, have been the ground for rough classification of the Country as a third world nation. Prevailing realities have thus place before the Country, the need to scale up investment in her public health system. This remains sacrosanct to appreciably meet up with the rising demands in corresponding flow with the expansion of rising population explosion.
