The Federal Government and its development partners have begun efforts to preserve and sustain the gains recorded under the Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19 RM) grant, as the programme comes to an end after strengthening Nigeria‘s disease surveillance systems, laboratory networks, oxygen infrastructure and overall health security capacity.
The commitment was underscored at the C19 RM closeout and dissemination meeting in Abuja, where government officials, donor agencies, implementing partners and public health experts emphasised the need to integrate the programme’s achievements into routine health systems and financing structures to ensure their long-term impact.
Representing the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, the Director at the Department of Hospital Services, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Vivian Okafor, said the focus must now shift from emergency response to sustaining the systems and institutions established through the intervention.
She noted that the COVID-19 pandemic underscored
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