Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has urged the Federal
Government to ensure that reports from studies, especially, those from the
National Institutes of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru are made
available to respective states of the country for implementation.
Governor Okowa made the call on Monday when members of
Executive Course 41 of NIPSS paid him a courtesy call in Asaba.
According to the governor, “the NIPSS over the years have
changed the narrative of governance of this country including the state and
local governments through its numerous research and studies; it is good to hear
that a lot of studies still take place in our nation and both the states and
local governments will benefit and utilize the reports if the Federal Government
can make the reports available to them.”
“I know that the input of participants who are from diverse the background will enrich reports from NIPSS and the reports will be very
beneficial to states where the studies took place,” the governor stated.
While lauding the theme of study, ‘funding universal
healthcare in Nigeria,” Governor Okowa observed that to achieve universal
health coverage, there should be adequate manpower, training and proper funding
for the primary healthcare sector.
He noted that medical tourism can only be curbed when the primary healthcare sector is effective which will give rise to functional
tertiary health sector that will reduce medical tourism.
Governor Okowa used the occasion to call for full
implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme Act 2004 so as to
increase health care coverage across the country, noting that it was sad that
Nigeria has 12 per cent health insurance coverage fifteen years after the Act
was signed into law.
Earlier the Director-General of NIPSS and leader of the
study team, Mr Jonathan Juma had in his speech, lauded the contributions of
Governor Okowa to the development of the country, disclosing that they were on
study tour of Delta State.
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