The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Tunji Alausa, has denied the report that the Nigerian government is planning to privatise the country’s university teaching hospitals.
Mr Alausa said the government is focused on boosting growth in the health sector but has no plans to commercialise its health institutions.
The minister was reacting to a question by PREMIUM TIMES’s reporter on Thursday on the sideline of an event to inaugurate a committee saddled with the responsibility of addressing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
He was reacting to the comment by the Chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Health, Amos Magaji, who expressed the desire of the parliament to support the privatisation of Nigeria’s university teaching hospitals.
Recently, the lawmaker representing Zangon Kataf/Jaba Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, North-west Nigeria, suggested that the privatisation of teaching hospitals could help to address some of the…