We need a school of nursing, midwifery in every local govt - Peter Obi on how to tackle healthcare challenges

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi believes the best way to tackle the structural challenges in the health sector in Nigeria is to increase the health budget and build nursing institutions in every local government in the country.

The former Anambra governor who said that the Northern part of the country needs a special focus as far as health is concerned made the comment when he appeared on Arise News Presidential Town Hall Series on Sunday, December 5.

"The first thing you need to do is the issue of primary healthcare because that is the basics and even with that we have to increase the investment we have today in healthcare."

"As I said for education, our total budget for health in the past six years is very low for a country of about 250 million people. That is totally unacceptable. Essentially, we need to contribute to primary healthcare. We need to increase investment in primary healthcare and invest in training manpower. There is no reason why we can have a school of nursing and midwifery in every local government."

"What I call the second medical care, we need is insurance. We need to find insurance like other big countries like ours have done."

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