Trends And Challenges Of Public Health Care Financing System In Nigeria: The Way Forward

Yunusa, U.; Irinoye, O; Suberu, Ahmed; Garba, Abdulkarim; Timothy, G Buchman; A, Dalhatu,; Ahmed, Syed Khursheed

doi:10.9790/5933-0432834

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“…This is why public hospital service delivery should be high, effective and accessible, (Obembe, Osungbade, Olumide, Ibrahim & Fawole, 2014). AEFUTHA is cut in the web of inadequate provision of basic public services to which each patient is entitled in a timely, fair, honest, effective and transparent manner (Iliyasu , Abubakar, Abubakar, Lawan, & Gajida 2010;Yunusa, Irinoye, Suberu, Garba, Timothy, Dalhatu, & Ahmed, 2014;Olowu 2005).…”

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“…There is need for effective evaluation of the utilization of funds, encouragement of local production of drugs and other necessary requirements of the health sector; increase funding for training and research amongst health workers and discouragement of use of public funds for people to travel abroad for medical services. Relatedly functional public health policy for all Nigerians will certainly improve service delivery in the health sector (Yunusa, Irinoye, Suberu, Garba, Timothy, Dalhatu, & Ahmed, 2014).…”

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“…Similarly, majority of clients as well as good number of medical staff are ignorant of the existence and contents of the client's charter of SERVICOM which stipulates the rights and responsibilities of the clients and medical staff (SERVICOM Report, 2006). It is argued that long waiting queues which at times lead to unnecessary suffering and sometimes deaths of patients is evidence of gap in service delivery and irregular implementation of SERVICOM charters (Yunusa, Irinoye, Suberu, Garba, Timothy, Dalhatu, & Ahmed, 2014). The situation to a reasonable extent has made citizens to patronize private hospitals attributable to loss of confidence in public hospitals.…”

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SERVICOM and Service Delivery in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA)

Ezekwe,

Sunday

2021

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The study was carried out to investigate SERVICOM and service delivery in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA). The study employed Content Analysis Approach to achieve the objectives. The study examined the degree of improvement recorded using SERVICOM to enhance quality service delivery in the hospital. Hence, it is established that public awareness about service charters and existence of SERVICOM units where client’s complaints with regard to service failure can be handled within government agency is obviously weak in its responsibilities. It is the findings of the study, that the hierarchical structure associated with delay in provision of medical services required or expected by the patients are worrisome, attributable to poor services which has increased low confidence. SERVICOM effort to improve service delivery is jeopardized with observable gaps associated with service delivery in the Institution. The implication of this finding is that the loss of revenue based on ineffectiveness in service delivery has created an opportunity for poor turnout and to a reasonable extent loss of confidence in public hospitals. Hence, the infectiveness in service delivery in the institution is attributable to dominant situation of the implementation of SERVICOM charters principle and such has continued to be a source of concern to relevant stakeholders and policymakers. Consequently, the study recommended that Federal Government should be encouraged to adopt proper implementation strategy for SERVICOM to enable service intervention policy tackle the problem of poor service delivery in teaching hospitals in Nigeria.

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SERVICOM and Service Delivery in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA)

Ezekwe,

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2021

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“…Evidences suggest that the currently implemented input-based financing mechanism has failed to yield desired results with the country's health system performing poorly in critical maternal and child health outcomes and lagging behind other countries (6)(7)(8)(9). While evidences of RBF impact in Nigeria are scanty, there are few studies that indicate RBF offers improvement in access, utilization and quality of health services (7,(9)(10)(11)(12)(13). RBF possesses great potential and could serve as a tool to reform the Nigerian health system, particularly primary health care, hence, sustaining the gains of RBF in Nigeria will rely substantially on institutionalizing RBF fellowship as a unique platform for continuous recruitment and training of health professionals with competencies required to drive primary health care policies for the attainment of universal health coverage.…”

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Nigerian Results-Based Financing Fellowship: A Strategic Approach for Sustaining Results-Based Financing in Nigeria

Ogunseye

2020

Front. Public Health

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“…In the Abuja Declaration, which Nigeria and 43 other African countries signed in 2001, a commitment to spending 15% of annual budgets on public health were made; however, this has not been achieved over the years (Obansa & Orimisan, 2013). Additionally, up to the year 2020, the budgetary allocation for health still remains below the 15% expenditure that was signed by the Nigerian government in the Abuja Declaration (Yanusa et al, 2014). Even in the face of this, Nigerian leaders continued to squander large fortunes on foreign medical treatment for its officials.…”

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Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership question

Obi-Ani

Ezeaku

Ikem

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Cogent Arts & Humanities

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Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pathetic nature of the Nigeria healthcare system has become more glaring. In First World countries, the ravaging nature of the pandemic, marked by a high death toll, elicits trepidation among Nigerian citizens. What is more, these fears are not necessarily as a result of the lethal nature of COVID-19 but rather, they are consequent of certain conditions amongst which include: an inept and unconcerned leadership, accompanied by dilapidated health institutions characterized by poor working conditions and incentives. It is in lieu of these unhealthy conditions that the dreaded disease found its footing in the Nigerian environment. Against this background, this paper argues that the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, its local dispersion occasioned by paucity of medical personnel and supplies due to decades of neglect of health care system is worrisome. This study recommends an overhaul of the healthcare system with the aim of achieving a robust health care system for Nigerian citizens. Thus far, various scholars have focused on corrupt leadership practices of Nigerian leaders without a detailed and in-depth study on the nexus between the health sector and this failure. It is this obvious gap in scholarship that this present study sets out to fill. The paper adopts a qualitative approach which will be anchored on primary and ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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Trends And Challenges Of Public Health Care Financing System In Nigeria: The Way Forward

Cited by 14 publications

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SERVICOM and Service Delivery in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA)

SERVICOM and Service Delivery in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA)

Nigerian Results-Based Financing Fellowship: A Strategic Approach for Sustaining Results-Based Financing in Nigeria

Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership question

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