To provide healthcare for all citizens, focusing on preventive care, public health, and the specific needs of vulnerable populations
Reforming Healthcare for Universal Access and Comprehensive Care
YPP’s Approach:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Policy: The YPP commits to presenting a comprehensive healthcare policy for the country, ensuring healthcare accessibility for all citizens .
- Free Medical Services: The party aims to provide free medical services in all institutions of learning, to the aged, the physically challenged, pregnant women, and children under 5 years old .
YPP’s Strategies Detailed:
- Access to Free Medical Services: Ensuring that all Nigerians, particularly children aged 0-5 years and the elderly, have access to free medical services.
- Free Immunization: Providing free immunization to all children.
- Primary Health Centers: Progressively establishing primary health centers, equipped with pharmacies, within the reach of every Nigerian, particularly in rural areas.
- General and Specialist Hospitals: Progressively providing General Hospitals in all Local Government headquarters and specialist hospitals in all State Capitals.
- Traditional Medicine: Encouraging research into traditional medical practices and integrating these practices into the orthodox medical system.
- Teaching Hospitals: Equipping and expanding the teaching Hospitals in the country.
- Paramedical Personnel Training: Embarking on mass training of paramedical personnel to meet the needs of the rural populace.
- Medical Education: Encouraging more students to train as medical doctors.
- Incentives for Medical Personnel: Providing special incentives for medical practitioners and other medical personnel, particularly those in remote areas.
- Local Drug Production: Stimulating the local production of medical drugs and other supplies.
- Family Planning: Encouraging family planning by providing family planning services and materials free of charge.
- Regulation of Private Hospitals: Regulating private hospitals, medical clinics, and pharmacies to protect Nigerians against exploitation.
- Combating Fake Drugs: Making and enforcing stringent laws against the manufacturing and sale of fake and adulterated drugs.
- Environmental Health: Promoting a healthy physical environment by intensifying periodic environmental sanitation exercises.
- Nutritional Health and Education: Promoting nutritional health and education.
- National Health Insurance Scheme: Expanding and strengthening the national health insurance scheme.
Motivational Example:
- YPP’s Vision for a Healthy Society: The YPP aims to ensure every Nigerian lives in an environment conducive to good health and soundness of body and mind.
Specific Areas of Focus:
- Increased Budgetary Allocation: Strict compliance with global best practices of budgetary allocation to health at all levels of government.
- Comprehensive Healthcare: A comprehensive health-care policy for the country, the essential aim of which shall be health-care for all citizens.
Impact:
- Improved Public Health: A focus on preventive care and public health initiatives will reduce the burden of disease and improve overall health outcomes.
- Reduced Mortality Rates: Providing quality healthcare services, especially to vulnerable populations, will reduce maternal and child mortality rates.
- Enhanced Quality of Life: Ensuring access to healthcare for all citizens will enhance their quality of life and contribute to a more productive society.
