• Prof. Ali Pate, Minister of Health • Stranded patients in Nigerian hospital “Innovation, investment and part- often depend on boats or other informal Coverage (UHC), the gap be- settlement on the outskirts payments, which account for about nerships are essential to scaling means of transport to access care. tween policy commitments and of Abuja, Zainab Musa is A 70 per cent of total health expenditure. access to quality care,” she said. At the policy level, Nigeria has actual service delivery remains wide. already awake, her two- For many households, particularly In addition, policymakers ha…
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