Health Financing, Industrialisation Top Tinubu’s Agenda – Shettima

• Vice President Shettima highlights Tinubu administration’s priorities: increased domestic health financing, industrialization, and improved health outcomes, during a delegation visit
• The vice president promises political support to enhance health outcomes, increase domestic health financing, and promote health industrialization under Tinubu’s leadership

Increasing domestic health financing, industrialization, and improved health outcomes are top priorities for the Ahmed Bola Tinubu administration, according to Vice President Kashim Shettima.

He stated this yesterday during a visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja by a delegation from the Global Health Partners – the Global Fund, the US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), and the US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In a statement issued by his media office, the vice president reiterated the Tinubu administration’s commitment to repositioning Nigeria’s healthcare system, promising the president’s political support to “improve health outcomes for all Nigerians; increased domestic financing for health; and promoting health industrialisation.”

According to him;

These are three major commitments I am making on behalf of my boss and be rest assured that our word is our bond.

I want to assure you that we are determined to catapult the nation to a higher pedestal. We are committed to changing the narrative of inclusive growth, of a Nigeria where every black man will be proud of.

Continuing, he said;

President Tinubu is a man of vision and he has the courage to follow through whatever he believes in, from the appointment of the Minister of Health, there is a clear testimony to the drive, the political commitment of the President and the current leadership towards repositioning the Nigerian nation.

The minister of health is a man of impeccable credentials. He is a celebrated public health practitioner with the experience, exposure and commitment to drive the change we seek in the health sector.

The vice president urged Global Health Partners and other stakeholders in the health sector to support the Health Ministry’s new leadership in realizing the president’s vision for all Nigerians.

Earlier, Prof Ali Pate, the minister of health and social welfare, stated that the global health partners’ visit was to assess progress and reassure the Tinubu administration of their commitment to combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, among other diseases.