In a concerted effort to address the challenges facing the healthcare sector, key stakeholders in the health sector have brainstormed on how Nigeria can improve its healthcare delivery system.
This is even as they have called for stronger collaboration with relevant authorities to ensure improved healthcare service delivery in Nigeria and across Africa.
The chief executive officer, Nature’s Renaissance International (NRI), Prof. Clinton Brown, at a health forum in Lagos, highlighted the urgent need for coordinated efforts to enhance healthcare quality across the continent.
Brown explained that for the nation and continent to forge ahead, there was the need to look inward, believe in the potential it has, encourage local content and stop capital flight. “I think there is a need for collaborations, because we cannot run Africa with foreign ideology. We should be able to develop and create our own ideology. As a matter of fact, this is Pan Africanism, we are Africans and we should live as one. There is no hope for Africa if we continue to live a borrowed life.
“We should be able to develop our style of health care delivery and services, we are blessed in this continent, what we need to do is to collaborate with the government and agree with ourselves that God has blessed us with resources to make a change,” he said.
Brown mentioned that priority must be given to capacity building that would improve people standard of living and raise their health status, stressing that every well meaning individuals must come on board to make this happen.
“A sick person has no business with wealth and a very hungry man has nothing to contribute to the development of the economy and if you think this is something that one man can do, it is impossible and that is why we need collaboration and awareness. We don’t need to put up a competition with the rest of the world let us accept and support our local content, let’s produce our medicine and all that we are blessed with, by the time we allow collaboration, more doors will be opened for our continent,” he added
A leader of NIR in Lagos State, Mr Ikechukwu Egbo, said it has become expedient to support local herbs to cure various illnesses as it comes with natural resources and ingredients that can fast track the healing process.
Nature’s Renaissance International is a leading healthcare company dedicated to improving the health through the development of the healthcare solutions using African herbs. The essence of the event is to take Nigeria and Africa out of poor health, diseases and sickness. As a way to give back to the society, Brown, who celebrated his birthday at the event, gave out three cars to the company’s best performing staff.
