President Tinubu Worried About The Exorbitant Cost of Drugs – Minister

Nigerians have been reassured by Dr. Tunji Alausa, the minister of state for health and social welfare, that President Bola Tinubu is making every effort to address the exorbitant cost of medications and the withdrawal of certain global pharmaceutical corporations from Nigeria.

Dr Alausa claimed that Tinubu was experiencing nightmares about the problems, despite his assurances that the Ministry of Health was searching for long-term solutions.

Speaking to reporters soon after the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), in Ebutte Metta, Lagos, officially opened a new clinical complex, the minister emphasised that the President was committed to creating long-lasting, comprehensive, and sustainable healthcare systems for Nigerians.

“The President is experiencing insomnia due to the shortage of drugs.” He has talked to us about what has to be done. Comprehensive, long-lasting, and sustainable health care is what President Bola Ahmed Tinubu desires for this nation. He only wants us to avoid going too far.

“For Nigerians, Tinubu is a very real and honest person. He is trying to devote national time and resources to improving our healthcare system because he wants to see it fixed. I understand that times are difficult, but Nigerians must persevere. In the not too distant future, things will be turned around for the better, Alausa revealed.

He said that the government was putting a lot of effort into developing a comprehensive plan to address the problems.

First and foremost, there is the issue of counterfeiting. To lower the amount of fake medications that are brought into our nation, we are collaborating with NAFDAC and Customs. In an effort to boost output, we are also collaborating with a few of the nearby pharmaceutical companies.

We are urging some of the corporations that are preparing to depart to please bear with us and stay put. In order to support domestic production, we are also developing a number of integration projects,” he declared.

“We are putting all our energy into ensuring that this medical industrialization programme starts quickly,” Alausa said in reference to the federal government’s plans to create six medical enterprises spread across the six geopolitical zones. In each of the six geopolitical zones, we plan to open six medical industrializations.

“I am aware that land in the southwest geopolitical zone has been promised to us by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos. We intend to discuss the establishment of these industrial parks around our nation with the other governors. We are attempting to resolve our issue in a way that is both sustainable and long-lasting. Patchwork is not what we want to do. We will find a solution because the president does not want us to sew things together.

Regarding a lack of manpower, the minister gave the assurance that by year’s end, the nation would generate more than 120,000 nurses.

In his additional explanation, he proposed that “we were enrolling 28,000 nurses annually between the time we came in as a government.” Approximately 66,000 nurses were enrolled in nursing programmes after this president assumed office. The nation will produce more than 120,000 nurses before the year ends.