A group, Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON), has called on Oyo State to fully implement the National Health Act.
The Secretary of the group in Oyo State, Seun Onifade, spoke yesterday at a sensitisation and town hall meeting on National Health Act and Primary Healthcare at NMA House, Ibadan.
He described the act as a rallying framework toward achieving universal health coverage in the state.
‘’If this act is well implemented without corruption, it will reshape the Nigerian health landscape to the extent that all Nigerians, without any exception, would be entitled to basic minimum package to health services.
‘’Healthcare will be accessible and affordable to all for a common man.
“Perfecting the strategies of implementing the health act is the only way to achieve universal health coverage in the state,’’ he said.
Onifade said the implementation of the health act will allow health workers to realise that health of the citizens is not business as usual.