FG Convenes Special Meeting of All Health Sector Stakeholders Over OMICRON
Category: Nigeria News
The Federal Ministry of Health has convened a special National Council on
Health meeting.
The meeting involves all health commissioners across Nigeria’s 36 states and other stakeholders in the health sector to review the gains and lessons learnt from COVID-19 management towards building a more resilient health sector.
At the opening of the two-day NCH meeting on Thursday in Abuja, health minister Osagie Ehanire explained that Nigerians must remain alert as new variants of the virus, which are more contagious and virulent, power new waves of infections.
“Just in the last few days, we have heard of the new omicron variant, supposedly emerging from southern Africa, which has been labelled a variant of concern, and starting a new round of drastic measures like restrictions of flights and movement likely to hurt economic activities of countries,” Mr Ehanire stated.
The theme of the 2021 NCH is ‘The Journey to Attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Applying Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic Towards Building A Resilient National Health System’.
Speaking further, the health minister pointed out, “And so, whether it’s a COVID-19 variant or a new attack, we must strengthen our health security architecture to ensure we are prepared at all times to detect, and respond, in the interest of the health of our population.”
The meeting involves all health commissioners across Nigeria’s 36 states and other stakeholders in the health sector to review the gains and lessons learnt from COVID-19 management towards building a more resilient health sector.
At the opening of the two-day NCH meeting on Thursday in Abuja, health minister Osagie Ehanire explained that Nigerians must remain alert as new variants of the virus, which are more contagious and virulent, power new waves of infections.
“Just in the last few days, we have heard of the new omicron variant, supposedly emerging from southern Africa, which has been labelled a variant of concern, and starting a new round of drastic measures like restrictions of flights and movement likely to hurt economic activities of countries,” Mr Ehanire stated.
The theme of the 2021 NCH is ‘The Journey to Attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Applying Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic Towards Building A Resilient National Health System’.
Speaking further, the health minister pointed out, “And so, whether it’s a COVID-19 variant or a new attack, we must strengthen our health security architecture to ensure we are prepared at all times to detect, and respond, in the interest of the health of our population.”
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