{"id":79897,"date":"2025-12-09T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79897"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:13:12","slug":"political-will-smart-financing-key-to-achieving-uhc-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/political-will-smart-financing-key-to-achieving-uhc-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Will, Smart Financing Key to Achieving UHC \u2013Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, has called for stronger political will, increased financing, and broad collaboration across Nigeria\u2019s health sector to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through Paul Agboola, Medical Director of Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, at the 36th Annual General Meeting of the Association of Resident Doctors, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Salako described UHC as a \u201cmoral commitment\u201d to ensure equitable and affordable healthcare for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He noted persistent challenges, including shortages of skilled workers, poorly equipped facilities, limited access to medicines, and uneven maternal and child health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Salako highlighted President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda, which seeks to expand maternal and child health services, strengthen immunisation, revitalise primary healthcare, and deploy 774 trained \u201cHealthcare Champions\u201d to local governments nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He urged private sector involvement, sustainable health financing, ethical service delivery, and adoption of digital health innovations.<\/p>\n<p>Commending Ogun State\u2019s expanded Health Insurance Scheme, Salako stressed that government action alone is insufficient and called for united efforts from all stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, has called for stronger political will, increased financing, and broad collaboration across Nigeria\u2019s health sector to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Speaking through Paul Agboola, Medical Director of Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, at the 36th Annual General Meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79899,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897\/revisions\/79899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}