The Federal Government has raised concerns over conflicting health statistics in Nigeria, calling for a unified national data system to address discrepancies in figures reported by government agencies and health surveys.
The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Salako, said “inconsistent and outdated statistics could undermine health sector planning, policy decisions, resource allocation and the assessment of government interventions.”
Salako spoke on Wednesday in Abuja while declaring open the scientific conference of the 2026 Joint Annual Review of the health sector, themed ‘Make the Data Count ‘.
He said the country needed to move beyond collecting and presenting health data to establishing whether policies and programmes were delivering measurable improvements in people’s health.
“A health system that only reports activity learns slowly, while one that tests its claims in public learns faster,” the minister said.
Salako identified the fragmentation of health data across different agencies and reporting
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