On Monday, the Nigerian government said it had conducted an independent assessment of tertiary hospitals to improve the quality of healthcare services in the country.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, made this known while speaking on the Sunrise Daily programme on Channels Television.
Mr Pate noted that the National Tertiary Hospitals Standards Committee conducted the assessment in 20 tertiary hospitals.
“We are beginning to focus on the quality of care in our facilities. As we speak, there’s an independent assessment that has been conducted in 20 of them to look at the quality of care that we offer to our patients,” he said.
He explained that the findings from the committee have been submitted and will serve as the basis for developing scorecards to measure the performance of teaching hospitals.
Mr Pate emphasised that the scorecards will not be used to criticise the hospitals but to identify areas requiring…
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