People from UK, US, other countries now come to Nigeria for quality healthcare – Minister

The federal government has granted approval to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to ratify the African Medicines Agency treaty.

The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate, said, while briefing State House correspondents, that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) gave the approval at its second meeting of the year, which was held on Tuesday.

Mr Pate said the treaty was initiated by the Africa Union Heads of State and Government at the 32nd meeting in Addis Ababa in February 2019.

“So far, 37 member states of the Africa Union have signed to the treaty, and 26 have ratified it, and the Federal Executive Council today directed that the treaty be ratified by Nigeria and directed us to take all actions to give effect to the treaty,” he said. He said it would also increase access to safe, quality-assured medical services and use common standards across the continent towards a Pan-African regulatory framework.

“And the import of this is, as we move in this direction, what we produce as part of our value chain expansion will have a much wider market.

“So, we’re expanding the market for products that can be manufactured here, just as other African countries; what they manufacture, we can also trade with them,” said Mr Pate.

The minister said FEC also approved six contracts for major diagnostic equipment, three Magnetic Resonance Imaging equipment and two CT scan equipment at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital in Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He said the treaty was intended to enhance the capacity of all state parties that ratified it to improve their regulatory capacities regarding medical products.

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Date: 05feb25