The year 2022 was quite a busy one for Nigeria’s health sector, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of Lassa fever, and the re-emergence of Mpox.
From grappling with the country’s already overstretched health system to losing large numbers of health personnel to developed countries, 2022 will remain an unforgettable year for the sector.
In this report, PREMIUM TIMES analyses some major landmarks that shaped the health sector in 2022.
COVID-19 pandemic
Two years after Nigeria reported its COVID-19 index case in an Italian traveller, the country seems to have gotten a hang of the pandemic which had earlier crippled the health system.
Routine immunisation, maternal and reproductive health, and child and adolescent health are among the health services disrupted as a result of the pandemic which claimed over 600 million lives globally.
Nigeria has so far tested over 5.7 million COVID-19 samples, with 266,450 returning positive. Over 3,000 persons have also…
