REVIEW OF YEAR 2025 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HEALTH SECTOR ACTIVITIES AND WHAT SHOULD DONE IN 2026

28/12/25

REVIEW OF YEAR 2025 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HEALTH SECTOR ACTIVITIES AND WHAT SHOULD DONE IN 2026

There is no much development, initiatives and progress in health sector in the 2025 especially at the federal level in view of the poor performance of the minister of health and social welfare with lack of focus and priority at the level of the federal ministry of health. This is made worse by the lack of focus and priority to healthcare delivery system by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It’s highly unfortunate, unacceptable and disappointing.

In 2025 at the federal levels
1 . Complete lack of interest in solving Japa syndrome

2 . Poor remuneration, welfare packages, training and retraining
for healthcare workers

3 . Poor management of strike actions of health sector associations by the FG

4 . Lack of focus on the core healthcare delivery system by the minister of health and social welfare but focused on data collections, research and international partners.

5 . Very low health indices, poor UHC, poor health insurance coverage, high cost of healthcare which is not accessible and affordable to the citizens especially drugs, medical materials, equipments, etc.

6 . Poor attention to primary healthcare system in the country

7 . Poor budgetary allocations to health sector and low healthcare financing.

8 . Poor and terrible power supply to the health institutions.

Positive initiative is fair improvement in the infrastructural development especially buildings

For 2026
Focus should be on the followings:

1 . Better living wages and remuneration to the healthcare workers.

2 . Reduction or eradication of Japa syndrome through the followings:
i. Better remuneration
ii . Better welfare packages.
Affordable housing loan and mortgage
Affordable Car loans
iii. Training and retraining
iv . Better career progression
v . Provision of necessary equipments, tools and materials
vi. Friendly and positively impactful policies that will benefit the workers and the citizens.
vii . Overseas training
viii. Conducive environment
ix . Stoppage of assault to healthcare workers.
x . Non taxable call duty allowances

3 . Accessible, affordable and qualitative healthcare workers to the citizens:
i. Improvement in UHC
ii. Improvement in health insurance coverage, scope, premium and policy
iii . Reduction in the cost of healthcare:
a. Reduction in the tariff for medical equipments, consumables etc
b . Reduction in the prices of drugs

4 . Implementation of extension of the retirement age of healthcare workers.

5 . Focus and priority to the primary healthcare system

6 . Collaboration between government and private hospitals to reduce mortality and improve access and affordability of healthcare delivery to the citizens.

7 . Improvement in the power supply to the health institutions.

8 . FG should review the budgetary allocations to health sector from 6% to 15% of the Abuja declaration, also those in charge of the health sector should use the money efficiently and effectively without corruption.

9 . Minister of Health should focus on the healthcare delivery system in Nigeria than his present focus on research and few infrastructural development in few hospitals.

10 . Minister of health should resolve the unnecessary and avoidable strike actions in health sector with different approach to conflict resolution especially by giving respect, listening ears and dignity to the medical associations eg NARD. When NARD was on strike, citizens didn’t get access to healthcare delivery.

11 . FG should building different categories of specialist hospitals in the 6 regions of the country including infection disease hospitals in the 6 regions.

12 . Improvement in the security of healthcare workers eg assault on staff and conducive environment for practicing and elimination of mental stress and burnout inducers on the healthcare workers.

Dr Saheed Babajide Kehinde
Chairman
NMA Lagos State.