The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has commended the Federal Government for including health as an area to be tackled by the Economic Management Team.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja the President of the NMA, Dr Omede Idris, said the action of the Federal Government was highly commendable, stressing that more Nigerians would benefit if the project was handled properly.
“The association wishes to commend the Federal Government for realising and desiring that the health sector needed such attention and repositioning for a strong, virile and sustainable development.
“This may have influenced the inclusion of health as one of the areas to be tackled by the Economic Management Team,’’ he said.
Idris said that for the first time in the history of Nigeria, “it is our expectation that the Federal Government would utilise and implement the recommendation of the team after Peer Review”.
The NMA chief noted that security of lives and property, good health, education, roads and water, should be the focus for good governance.
He said the association had an unalloyed commitment to qualitative and enduring health care delivery at the federal and state levels, adding that “relevant stakeholders should? put smiles on the faces of Nigerians through good policy initiatives’’.
Speaking on the increase in communicable diseases like cholera in the northern parts of the country, Idris said the situation was embarrassing.