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Federal Government yesterday unveiled a health intervention programme
that would provide free surgery to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians
registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Federal Government yesterday unveiled a health intervention programme
that would provide free surgery to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians
registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The programme, which will start on July 18 in 46 health facilities
across Nigeria, will also extend free breast and cervical cancer tests
to 18,000 Nigerians as well as free diabetes and hypertension tests to
500,000 others.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,
Mallam Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement yesterday after
President Muhammadu Buhari met with the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti.
Earlier in her remarks, Moeti commended the federal government’s health
programmes and pledged continued support of the WHO to the development
of Nigeria’s health sector.