UP GEJ!: Health

As President, Goodluck Jonathan has championed measures to create a health care system of which Nigerians can truly be proud.

Under the President’s leadership, the Ministry of Health has made significant strides in the areas of infrastructural development, disease control and prevention, and immunisation, among others.

Achievements:

• Refurbished 1,500 primary healthcare facilities and provided them with essential drugs.
• Introduced SURE-P (The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme), which has provided vital funding to health care services, leading to a 26% decrease in the maternal mortality rate and a 22% decrease in neonatal mortality rate.
• Implemented the “Saving One Million Lives” initiative, through which over 433,650 lives were saved from November 2012 to June 2013 by scaling up six cost-effective interventions including Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Provision of Essential Commodities, Malaria Control, Routine Immunisation/Eradication of Polio.
• Rehabilitated and modernised teaching hospitals and medical centres such as OAU and UNIBEN teaching hospitals.
• Reduced under-5 mortality from 157 out of 1,000 live births to 94 out of 1,000 live births.
• Reduced maternal mortality from 545 women per 100,000 to 350 women per 100,000.
• Introduced, for the first time in the history of Nigeria, a curriculum for the training of paramedics.
• Recruited 11,300 frontline health workers who were deployed to under-served communities across the country.
• Held a week-long Presidential Summit on Universal Health Coverage, with the aim of boosting efforts to provide access to affordable, high quality healthcare for every Nigerian.