Healthcare: What would we do without foreign funding?

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Although not an expert in the global health, but the future for Nigeria's healthcare intervention looks bleak.

Over the decades, we have over depended on foreign aids in managing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal mortality, and malnutrition. Looking at it critically, it seems only few medical conditions are not supported by foreign aid.

Of course it's true regarding the huge chunk of our budget these medications would cost if left to be funded domestically.

As someone who works and mingles in the ladder below, I have witnessed a lot of sorrowful occurrences. Ordinary Nigerians and even the healthcare professionals have not help in making the matter good. The gross mismanagement, working solely for the remuneration, and how the locals themselves can manipulate things just to make sure funding for the polio and measles virus vaccine campaign kept coming is abominable.

Local community health workers are ravenously taking what little came for the poor victims. I have witnessed dozens of people just interested in switching cadres to public health just to work with NGOs (non-governmental organisations). Nurses, doctors, anatomists, scientists, etc everyone is running towards the free money.

Ideally, the foreign funding should not be eternal, the country has to find a way of sustaining the programmes.

There was a common knowledge in public health about public-private- partnership (PPP), and how each primary healthcare programme should be designed in a way that it would be sustained by the locals. This brings the issue of affordability, the US should have since day one taught Nigerians how to develop those drugs locally at a cheaper rate so as not to depend on their markets and pharmaceutical companies.

President Trump has already come, and we should expect and prepare for more shocks rather than continually crying out. This should serve as a wake-up call to our policy makers and to the president to mitigate a way out.

It's unlikely the stoppage of USAID funding would be reversed; we should have prepared for the rainy days ahead.

Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. ( Syndigate.info ).

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