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[00:00:07] of of
[00:00:14] Tonight, on dateline Abuja, the state of Nigeria's health sector
[00:00:18] comes under scrutiny, hospitals are
[00:00:20] overstretched, critical infrastructure is deteriorating,
[00:00:25] of of essential medicines remain beyond the reach of many
[00:00:28] Nigerians while doctors. nurses and other health professionals
[00:00:31] continue to leave the country, so after years
[00:00:35] of promises, budgetary allocations and overside
[00:00:38] visits, what
[00:00:40] of exactly is changing?
[00:00:42] of honorable Amos Magaji, representing Zangun kataf Jaba
[00:00:46] Federal Constituency of Caduna State and chairman
[00:00:49] of the House Committee on Health
[00:00:51] of Institutions, joins us for a frank conversation
[00:00:55] on the state of healthcare in
[00:00:57] of Nigeria and particularly the challenge... confronting
[00:01:01] health facilities right here in the nation's capital, but that'l be after we
[00:01:05] bring you all the major stories from Nigeria's presidency in the past week.
[00:01:09] This is Deaklanda
[00:01:13] of Abuja.
[00:01:15] of
[00:01:20] of
[00:01:32] Hello and in welcome to Dateline Abuja, I'm Kayla Mega. From the
[00:01:36] decisions being taken at the presidency to the issues shaping the lives
[00:01:39] of Nigerians, we begin with the major developments
[00:01:43] of the past week. It's time for our Buja Rap. Nigeria has
[00:01:46] called for an
[00:01:48] of urgent reform of global governance structures
[00:01:51] of of and international financial institutions to better reflect contemporary economic and
[00:01:55] of demographic realities. Speaking at the 18th Brick Summit in New
[00:01:59] Delhi India.
[00:02:00] of Vice President Kashim
[00:02:01] of Shatima, who is representing President Bolatinubu, urged member states
[00:02:05] of breaks to push for more representative global
[00:02:09] of architecture, including reforms to the United Nations Security
[00:02:12] Council. Nigeria and India have agreed to rebuild their bilateral trade
[00:02:16] to its peak level of nearly 15 billion dollars, driven by
[00:02:20] India's request to renew crude oil
[00:02:23] of purchases from the country. The strategic commitment was reached during a
[00:02:27] bilateral meeting between Vice President Kashim. and the
[00:02:31] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines
[00:02:34] of the Bricks Leader Summit in New Delhi. Bilateral trade
[00:02:38] a between the two countries deeped sharply from $14.95
[00:02:42] billion dollars in the 2021 to
[00:02:45] 2022 financial year to
[00:02:48] $7.13 billion dollars in 2024 to
[00:02:52] of 2025 due to reduced Indian crude purchases
[00:02:56] before recovering slightly to around 9 billion dollars in 2
[00:03:00] 2025 to 2026. Prime Minister
[00:03:04] Modi emphasized that resuming strong energy trade is vital to
[00:03:08] restoring commercial exchanges to previous highs.
[00:03:11] Beyond oil, the two nations agreed to expand
[00:03:14] of cooperation across key growth sectors, deepening ties in
[00:03:17] Fintech, digital public
[00:03:19] of infrastructure and creative industries. The first lady of Nigeria,
[00:03:23] Senator
[00:03:24] Olure Mitinu is calling for stronger collaboration among governments
[00:03:28] at all levels, traditional. and religious institutions,
[00:03:32] development partners and philanthropists to tackle Nigeria's maternal and
[00:03:36] newborn mortality burden. Senator Tinibus call came as the
[00:03:40] federal government rolled out 21500
[00:03:43] me kids, 4000 maternal food support parks and
[00:03:47] 40,00 sets of newborn clothing for vulnerable women
[00:03:51] and families
[00:03:52] nationwide.
[00:03:57] Welcome
[00:03:59] of back. Nigeria's health. sector has never been short of promises,
[00:04:02] what remains in question is whether those promises are
[00:04:06] translating into functioning hospitals, adequate equipment, affordable
[00:04:10] machines and quality healthcare for ordinary
[00:04:13] Nigerians. The House Committee on health
[00:04:16] of institutions has been conducting overside
[00:04:18] of visits of across the country, but Nigerians are entitled to ask
[00:04:22] what happens after the cameras leave and the inspection reports are
[00:04:26] written, who is held
[00:04:28] a accountable of when hospitals critical
[00:04:34] of of equipment, who answers when facilities are operating beyond capacity, and where does the responsibility lie when billions
[00:04:38] allocated to healthcare does not produce the improvements
[00:04:42] Nigerians expect? my guest has also criticized the use
[00:04:46] of NYSE doctors to run primary healthcare centers and
[00:04:50] of raised questions about the management
[00:04:55] of of the drug revolving fund. but perhaps the bigger in question is this: after all the oversights, investigations and
[00:04:59] budget. interventions, can Nigerians point to
[00:05:03] measurable evidence that the health system is actually getting
[00:05:06] better? Tonight, we go beyond the rhetoric and ask what the National
[00:05:10] Assembly is doing
[00:05:11] and what it should... be doing differently, honorable Amos Magaji,
[00:05:15] representing Zangon kataf jaba federal constituency of Caduna
[00:05:19] State and chairman the house committee on health institutions joins
[00:05:23] us tonight on dateline
[00:05:24] Abuja,
[00:05:29] honorable amos magaj, welcome again today, thank
[00:05:33] you Kla for having me, okay
[00:05:35] so let's start from where we stopped, the last time we had you here, you said you were going
[00:05:39] to go, the committee, the house committee was going to go
[00:05:43] a tour of health institutions, mostly primary
[00:05:47] healthcare centers across the country, so let's start with the details
[00:05:51] of that tour, what happened with that oversight, what did you notice with
[00:05:55] our health institutions across the country? um, first of all, let
[00:05:58] me say uh, let me start on the positive note,
[00:06:02] okay, that uh, in many states there has been
[00:06:05] deliberate efforts to revitalize and
[00:06:09] strengthen our primary health uh sector. but
[00:06:13] then uh the health sector is not just about building,
[00:06:17] it's about service and service delivery, service
[00:06:20] delivery, and then also and then the service delivery does not come just
[00:06:24] like that, they need be system, there also need to be human resource for
[00:06:28] health, so many state have
[00:06:30] revitalized
[00:06:32] uh uh the primary health sector through the basic healthcare provision
[00:06:36] funds and that is what in I'm just coming from a conversation right now that
[00:06:40] we're having trying to move the basic healthcare provision
[00:06:44] fund from 1% to 2% consolidated revenue, so
[00:06:48] we wanted to see if it is working, because there's no need
[00:06:52] adding money to fail system, so I wanted to see how
[00:06:56] the primary health care in Nigeria is functioning, if the basic care health
[00:07:00] provision funds actually addressing some the health gap,
[00:07:04] if not, why should add money, but so went around all the state
[00:07:08] the federation, I think just few states now we have not been
[00:07:11] there, some them due to insecurity, some them also due to
[00:07:15] time, and then we saw remarkable improvement, some
[00:07:19] state governor, government are doing so well,
[00:07:23] and and then some of some other
[00:07:26] places, I think they need to sit up
[00:07:30] and make health a priority, you know, I, I,
[00:07:34] why health? when you think you
[00:07:37] have
[00:07:39] problems, it is when...
[00:07:43] you have health that you consider a problem, see healthy person
[00:07:46] has million needs,
[00:07:50] but sick person has just one needs to be
[00:07:54] healthy, and then the health of nigerian, and you cannot
[00:07:58] have a prosperous, productive nation if we don't have
[00:08:02] healthy nation, and the boring of health
[00:08:05] also, it can take family from
[00:08:09] middle class and bring them down to to to... to low or
[00:08:13] zero class, so that's why we also need to position
[00:08:17] our health system to work so as so that Nigerian can be
[00:08:21] productive and then the boring of health will not we on families, so we
[00:08:25] went around all the many state the federation, we saw what they are
[00:08:29] doing in the revitalization the primary
[00:08:32] healthcare center and let me say it this way, going forward i
[00:08:36] as nation, i think primary health should be
[00:08:40] the hospital for now, the hospital for the future, the
[00:08:44] reason why the tary health facility, if you go to jabi federal
[00:08:48] medical center now or national hospital, you will see today, mean
[00:08:52] today being 17th of uh of of
[00:08:55] september, you will see far far more than
[00:08:59] 300 patient that went there to treat malaria, to treat
[00:09:03] cough, to treat some infection that would have been handle at the
[00:09:07] primary level, yes, and then sometime
[00:09:10] because the the... processes or
[00:09:13] the the lack of trust in the system, it now make them
[00:09:17] delay, and of course when it comes to healthcare needs delay
[00:09:20] is also dangerous, so people delay, and then
[00:09:24] what's supposed to be treated with 10,00
[00:09:27] becomes serious
[00:09:30] problem, and then at the end because of that it may result you spending
[00:09:34] 200, 300 thous or even hospitalization, what's
[00:09:38] more death? you you've been, you've been talking about primary health. care
[00:09:42] centers, I remember one the things that you you you criticized early on
[00:09:46] uh was the fact that there were there were so many youth call members who were
[00:09:50] manning those primary health has that changed?
[00:09:54] yeah, is that something you heavily criticized
[00:09:56] at the time? yeah, the the issue is we are even looking at the situation
[00:10:00] whereby if we revitalize this and make it
[00:10:04] not,
[00:10:04] it's a priority, bad
[00:10:04] it's have a not to a coper in a
[00:10:08] primary health center, but what is more important is that if you have a
[00:10:11] structure? you don't put somebody that is on on on
[00:10:14] transit, okay? so you want, so that's what the issue is, it's not the
[00:10:18] qualification, no, no, not really the qualification, it's the investment
[00:10:22] in it, can the person is the person going to?
[00:10:26] coper had gone through the medical school and at
[00:10:30] fining medical school had gone through his house job which is
[00:10:34] internship and is now serving so anyhow the person have
[00:10:37] gathered some level of experience but
[00:10:41] is the person doing the service to say there certainly not
[00:10:45] but then that is not even the major problem the major problem we saw in
[00:10:49] many the primary health center are they
[00:10:53] choose the the CHOS, the
[00:10:57] community health officers, the
[00:11:00] the many years on on
[00:11:03] contract, they're not full staff, yeah, many
[00:11:07] them are not full staff, so so that that affect the
[00:11:11] system, and we have many looking for jobs, so we made
[00:11:15] call to many the state government to ensure
[00:11:18] that uh, they have a
[00:11:22] man-power uh analysis. where
[00:11:26] periodically they will begin to inject these people in the system
[00:11:29] that there are there are people that are committed to to working in the in
[00:11:33] the sector, but if somebody works for five years and yet is not
[00:11:37] perminant and then some the advice we gave some them was that
[00:11:41] once the window of employment comes through
[00:11:45] just make sure that you start considering those that are have
[00:11:48] been temporary staff so that tomorrow if you call out staff
[00:11:52] to come and work in your system they will believe that through.
[00:11:57] get injected into the
[00:11:58] that they system, easily you you are also advocating uh for the
[00:12:02] teatury health system uh to be on
[00:12:05] PPP based on what you found after your
[00:12:09] oversight? yeah, I i went
[00:12:12] to, I think
[00:12:16] all the tashary held institutions in
[00:12:19] Nigeria, except the Federal Medical Center,
[00:12:22] Zamfara, which... I had an interface
[00:12:26] with the the CMD, we we
[00:12:28] we we made several attempts to to leave Sokoto to
[00:12:32] Zamfara, it wasn't possible because the insecurity, but we
[00:12:36] have discovered something and um, okay, let me just say
[00:12:40] it this way, just last year, Cleveland Hospital made
[00:12:43] about 18 billion
[00:12:46] dollars, now lot the budget for health
[00:12:49] goes on many of this tertiary health institution, it's not
[00:12:53] bad, but I believe that if those money are channel to the
[00:12:57] primary health sector and then we have PPP
[00:13:01] arrangement where they will inject their
[00:13:04] phones, inject their experties, inject their managerial skills
[00:13:08] and then the government should concentrate, I believe that the government will even make
[00:13:12] more money, more money through those hospitals, so if you
[00:13:16] ask many the tertiary health institution, how much way
[00:13:19] I know that it is it is service, health is social service to the
[00:13:23] nation, but then if strengthen the primary health
[00:13:26] center, we allow the doctors in the tertiary
[00:13:30] health sector to do their own thing. now if you go to jab, you are
[00:13:34] meeting a consultant, federal medical center, the
[00:13:38] consultant will not just treat you like, he will make you pass
[00:13:41] through series of tests,
[00:13:45] examination before he sit down to treat, it's a
[00:13:49] consultant, now all those stary hospital have three basic
[00:13:52] mandate, training, research and
[00:13:56] health services, so when a taridy hospital
[00:14:00] is laidden with treatment of
[00:14:04] malaria and so, when do you think a consultant will be able to go into
[00:14:08] research? and because the primary health centers are
[00:14:12] not working, the pressure is on
[00:14:15] tertiary facility, and if they don't have money or transportation to
[00:14:19] go, you see they will delay. so your solution, and I'm trying to understand this model before
[00:14:23] we go a break, yeah. "your solution is, let all the funding from the
[00:14:27] federal government go to primary healthcare, strengthen that
[00:14:31] system, um, do proper training and staffing and and
[00:14:34] what not to make sure that the faith that the Nigerian has in primary
[00:14:38] healthcares centers uh is is brought
[00:14:42] back, yeah, and then they are functional, then the tertiary
[00:14:45] institutions should now partner with private
[00:14:49] sector, with the private sector to provide tertiary healthcare,
[00:14:53] tertiary healthcare, so so that's..." model that you pr yeah, that will also
[00:14:57] reduce medical tourism because there will be confidence in the
[00:15:01] system, look at this
[00:15:02] this way, Nigerians travel lot, be it on
[00:15:06] tourism, be it medical tourism or or
[00:15:09] whatever, when you go on for medical tourism anywhere in
[00:15:13] the world, you mean Nigerian doctors and I think with that we
[00:15:17] will have uh
[00:15:19] one of my my debuty say jakwada i think
[00:15:23] jakpa is to go jakpad. is to return, so if those
[00:15:26] systems are are put in place, you will discover that Nigerian
[00:15:30] doctors will be returning, and then mind, many of this hospital will not
[00:15:34] have collaboration with some of this... foreign
[00:15:37] a case in study look at Gariki general hospital, look at
[00:15:41] what uh uh Dr. Wadda had been able to transform that
[00:15:45] hospital, there is confidence, there is faith in the system,
[00:15:49] and another very critical thing
[00:15:53] is equipment, we go a short break, when we come back we'll
[00:15:57] talk more about this um the situation of our healthcare
[00:16:01] system, many people are worried about the
[00:16:04] viability of our healthcare and and the cost of
[00:16:08] treatment is another thing all together, so we'll talk about that when
[00:16:14] us on dateline abuja, we'll be right
[00:16:15] back.
[00:16:26] welcome back to dateline abuja, if you've just joined us, honorable Amos
[00:16:30] Magaji is our guest tonight and we're discussing healthcare, that's because he's
[00:16:34] the chair the house committee on health institutions and he just got back.
[00:16:37] from tour of our health institutions, thank you so much, thank you for being with us
[00:16:41] on the program, thank you, okay, so let's let's look at abuja, you mentioned few places
[00:16:45] that's that are doing well in your view, but last time you were here we had
[00:16:49] talked about the woose general hospital and then
[00:16:52] we talked about the capacity for the hospital in karu and nyan
[00:16:55] and you know how lot these places are filled to
[00:16:59] capacity
[00:17:01] over over the
[00:17:05] they are put a situation right now where the have to deal with more
[00:17:08] than they are built for, so your tour, did
[00:17:12] you go to these places and what's the situation, what are we going to do about
[00:17:15] woose and that hospital in nyan that's
[00:17:19] that is always filled to the brim? now i think for me
[00:17:23] solution to decongesting many these secondary
[00:17:26] facilities, one the solutions is to
[00:17:30] ensure that we have functional
[00:17:33] primary health centers, now the primary health centers are supposed to...
[00:17:38] to to support the
[00:17:39] secondary, um, lack of
[00:17:43] secondary, primary health in Nigeria
[00:17:47] is actually the cause that we are having huge
[00:17:51] burding, financial burding on health, for example,
[00:17:55] if somebody is just walking tracking along the road and you
[00:17:59] have some palpitation, you feel uneasy in your
[00:18:02] chairs, if there's a primary center near you, the person will just go
[00:18:06] there, and if if if the primary heart center
[00:18:09] is near you and is operational and people believe it did,
[00:18:13] you go there to check your bp, so the chances that somebody will
[00:18:17] have a stroke because you didn't
[00:18:21] know that his bp is high, we don't be there, and if you don't treat
[00:18:24] it the primary level, the problem gets to point where it
[00:18:28] will now become a tashary problem, and of
[00:18:32] course is cheaper at the primary
[00:18:34] level, it's more expensive.
[00:18:38] rece
[00:18:38] at the second at the secondary, not just the expense, but even the the disease
[00:18:42] condition. i think we should start by educating the
[00:18:46] Nigerian people, and i think that when it comes to primary
[00:18:50] healthcare, for many of us like see me, i'm thinking gary
[00:18:53] hospital, i'm thinking of going to where
[00:18:56] is the primary health care center in my
[00:18:59] neighborhood,
[00:19:01] you know, and i think maybe that's something we should start offly in the nation
[00:19:04] here, so for everyone who's watching us right now. 'if you can
[00:19:08] identify the primary health careare center in
[00:19:11] your neighborhood and then tell us are
[00:19:14] you ready because the the honorable amos this
[00:19:18] is your perview yeah they will innondate you with so let tell you the advantage of
[00:19:22] kela going to a primary health center near you the workers
[00:19:26] will sit up yes they will know oh this is uh
[00:19:29] kela if there is a problem with our system she will talk about it
[00:19:33] she will talk about it so they will sit up but if all they see
[00:19:37] the primary health center are people that probably don't even have recharge card
[00:19:40] to call or don't even have the connection with the people
[00:19:44] i there to complain, they will continue to
[00:19:48] offer uh minimal services
[00:19:51] uh uh they will be lakadistical in their in their services, but if they know
[00:19:55] that oh i can be reported so
[00:19:57] you there at the primary center also serve as feedback to
[00:20:00] strengthen it and until we begin to do
[00:20:04] that uh if you go to jabi now people complain,
[00:20:08] oh, i waited for one hour, i waited for 2 hours, why wouldon't you wait for two
[00:20:11] hours, if the primary malaria,
[00:20:14] malaria, and everybody wants to,
[00:20:18] we
[00:20:18] we we do that, but
[00:20:19] you see, the confidence need to be restored, and i
[00:20:23] said every nigerian should be to to be offering
[00:20:26] feedback the system, and until all of us start
[00:20:30] using those facility, it's not about building a
[00:20:34] primary healthcare center, it's not about employing doc. or
[00:20:38] nursies
[00:20:39] or or community health workers in primary health, but if you don't have
[00:20:43] faith in the system, if you don't all of us
[00:20:47] attempt to it and then improve it, it will not work. are you on
[00:20:50] x? yeah, you have an x handle? i have it, because i want
[00:20:54] people to send you the pictures their primary healthcare centers. i want you to
[00:20:58] see what the nigeria, listen, abuja, boy, i'm sure
[00:21:01] everyone around the country wants, because you are house
[00:21:05] com revitalization is going on health institutions, and if the
[00:21:08] revitalization is ongoing, we need to be able to point and say, okay,
[00:21:12] it is actually working, so maybe you can give us your ex handle so that those who
[00:21:16] are watching can feel free to tell you what is happening in their. realities
[00:21:20] because like you said, if we don't engage the system, we won't see
[00:21:23] it get better, so it's at Amos
[00:21:26] Gumna magaji, at Amos Gumna Magaji, all right, are you
[00:21:30] ready? very ready, we we like feedback like this, and we are
[00:21:34] working with primary healthcare, we are working with the ministry of health, we're working
[00:21:38] with some some with even some civil society,
[00:21:41] development development partners and to see that we
[00:21:45] wants primary health center to be the
[00:21:48] hospital for now. and the hospital for our future,
[00:21:52] with that it will reduce lot of thing, the maternal
[00:21:55] mortality will go down, the infant mortality will go
[00:21:59] down and the the the health seeking behaviors of
[00:22:03] Nigeria will go down, if you have anything you want
[00:22:06] to uh educate Nigerians, if you want to get Nigerians to
[00:22:10] know anything, mind you, if people in Abuja are
[00:22:14] healthy and somebody down there in Kavanchan or kai is not
[00:22:18] healthy, the all the... statistic at up, so when they
[00:22:22] say the maternal mortality rate in Nigeria is high, it is not
[00:22:26] contributed by every state, some few states, some few locality
[00:22:29] are the one that are given that body, but so if we are
[00:22:33] not all doing well, it will still
[00:22:37] affect our system. recently the minister of health was
[00:22:40] about a company that is coming to Nigeria here to establish, in fact they have
[00:22:44] actually start producing uh mosquito treated night, so
[00:22:48] instead of us uh uh
[00:22:51] importing mosquito treated net, we will now be
[00:22:55] producing and also look at our brothers in some uh
[00:22:59] in African region and probably net will be moving from Nigeria to other
[00:23:02] countries
[00:23:03] so we need to attract uh some health commodities
[00:23:07] also manufacturing of some of this product and the president has given waver
[00:23:11] in many of this if you want to establish any health uh uh
[00:23:15] manufacturing manufacturing yeah you are free to come and then you have
[00:23:19] incentives. Yeah, so we are calling on everybody that wants to
[00:23:23] invest into health, this is a window now that you can put in money, and of
[00:23:26] course with our population, you know that whatever you put you
[00:23:30] reap out of it. As we wrap up, you brought up
[00:23:34] something that had to do with priorities, if something isn't
[00:23:38] the priority of a state governor, if health is not his
[00:23:42] priority, you are wasting your time, yeah, if his
[00:23:46] priority, and and that's the thing about health, about investing in the...
[00:23:50] sector is that it's not, it's not immediate money, it's something that builds over
[00:23:54] time, so for for many state governments, what we see is that they cuts the they cut
[00:23:58] ribbon, medical center, they cut ribbon, but it's not working, yeah, but you
[00:24:01] see the problem is that the health you have to look at it
[00:24:05] because it is most time the health in this indicators are not
[00:24:09] tangible for example and then they are
[00:24:13] not easily used for campaigns, yes you can't use it for campaigns, for for example if a
[00:24:17] state governor goes now oh i said okay this intervention
[00:24:21] i brought and it has reduced materal mortality from this to this
[00:24:24] how do you campaign with so
[00:24:26] for villager he wants to see that okay
[00:24:29] uh uh you have build primary health center you have build
[00:24:33] general hospital you have build these and that apart from
[00:24:36] that how have you empower human
[00:24:40] resource for health most time people don't see that that's
[00:24:44] spending on health if if people are healthy they don't even think about
[00:24:48] that okay something made me healthy, mean it is when they are sick, they now
[00:24:52] begin to run out, as we're wrapping up, i was thinking, is it possible that your committee can
[00:24:56] help in some way uh, maybe come up with some kind of bill
[00:25:00] that that makes it mandatory for
[00:25:03] state governments to give a percentage their their
[00:25:07] income or percentage their budget, a particular percentage has
[00:25:11] to go to health, make it a priority, since they since many them don't want to take
[00:25:15] it as a priority, can you compel them negeria is signatory to the
[00:25:19] abuja declar? of 2021 that
[00:25:22] 15% of our annual budgets will go to
[00:25:26] health, 15%, some state government are
[00:25:29] doing over 15%, i can assure you, but sometimes when it comes
[00:25:33] to budget spending, it's not just the the the the allocation
[00:25:37] of funds, maybe what about the is not just the
[00:25:41] budgeting of fund, which sector, where and where is the money
[00:25:45] going, so you have to prioritize also
[00:25:49] the spending, Secondly, we need to also look at
[00:25:52] releases, is one thing to budget uh
[00:25:55] 15% of your annual budget on, and nothing to
[00:25:59] have the releases, so budget without release will. will make little
[00:26:03] impact number number two number three
[00:26:07] um
[00:26:08] the basic healthcare provision funds
[00:26:09] has in
[00:26:14] its own design states are supposed to have
[00:26:16] counterpart funding so with
[00:26:20] that the collaboration between the federal and and the
[00:26:24] subnational will bring about strengthening the
[00:26:27] system so by the time we begin to apply it to the
[00:26:31] letter there was said that I went and I actually called that,
[00:26:34] okay, let's suspend the releases from
[00:26:38] federal government to the states until we see
[00:26:42] the commitment the state, but then I look at it and when we
[00:26:46] when I discuss with the - ed
[00:26:50] of primary healthcare, I say if we do that some
[00:26:53] states, the poor in the community, because the
[00:26:57] this this hair care prohibition fund is their lifeline, yes, so if we
[00:27:01] decide to block. that this is the only thing they receive from the
[00:27:04] state, so we need to be deliberate, we need to be committed,
[00:27:08] we need to show duty of care to our our
[00:27:12] people, that's all the time that we have,
[00:27:15] i know it's never enough time, never, but do have to thank you so
[00:27:19] much, for being with us on dateline abuja, good luck
[00:27:23] with all the work, i know you have ahead of you, thank you,
[00:27:26] kyla, thank you for
[00:27:28] having
[00:27:32] me. Thanks to my guest, honorable Amos Magaji and
[00:27:36] everyone who spoke to us today on the program. The conversation
[00:27:40] about healthcare cannot end with policy announcements. For
[00:27:44] millions of Nigerians, the real test is whether they can walk into a hospital
[00:27:47] and receive timely, affordable and quality treatment.
[00:27:51] Please let us know the happenings in your neighborhood using the social media handles showing right
[00:27:55] now on your screens. Thank you so much for watching, I'm Kaylaamagwa.
[00:27:59] See you next time.
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