Minister Seek Laws, Specialised Bank To Bridge Funding Gap In Health Sector

The Minister of State for Education Tanko Sununu has said there is a need to establish a specialised bank to help close the funding gap in the health sector, through single-digit loans He said this at the 14th annual International conference of the Association for Fertility and Reproductive Health (AFRH) yesterday in Abuja.

He said: “We must have a FG’ll streamline regulatory systems to facilitate Ease of Doing business – Shettima The Minister further explained that the locomotives were using 100 per cent diesel.

“By retrofitting, we are going to use LNG 70 per cent and diesel 30 per cent. That is what we mean by retrofitting. “The idea is by the time you use LNG 70 per cent, the cost of running the locomotives will drastically be reduced. bank where we can easily take loans at a single digit.

“Bank of Industry is there but we need to also have a special one for the house. “See what India is doing, billions of dollars were used as foreign exchange just from people going to access health care out there.”

Sununu stressed the need for health professionals to collaborate, saying: “When we collaborate we will be able to have the best practice we want. “Through collaboration, we have gone far and we have a lot to do.

Let’s pool resources together because things are so costly.” The medical doctor said there was a need for the National Assembly to enact enabling laws that would guide certain practices in line with acceptable ethical standards.

The minister said: “There are some practices that requires the Act of National Assembly. “We need protection, we need to be guided; certain litigations are left at the discretion of judges because there are no enabling laws and most of the time, practitioners are the ones to suffer.”