NANS charges government on affordable healthcare services | EduCeleb
EduCeleb
12th October 2017
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Nigerian government to provide affordable healthcare services for all citizens.
The group said this, according to a statement jointly signed by its National President Aruna Kadiri.
While making reference to recent reports of the poor state of facilities at the Aso Rock Clinic, the Nigerian students’ apex body noted that the “meagre allocation to healthcare underscores the insensitivity of the authorities to public health.”
Kadiri went witty in noting that “a healthy nation is indeed a wealthy nation and there is no other way of changing the deplorable state of healthcare in the country than adequate funding.”
The group believed that affordable and quality healthcare services should be provided to all Nigerians regardless of class. It noted that the poor state of the health sector contributes to why a class of Nigerians seek medical treatments abroad.