First Eleven Providers Patting Health Care: Fierce Elements for Professor Pate’s Headship’s Cure
Figure 1: The first eleven providers of healthcare in Nigeria - culled from Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi’s archives at Sartorius Resources Nigeria’s healthcare system is a beehive of both real and quasi healthcare services that requires compelling political will & actions to effect remedial interventions as part of Health System Strengthening (HSS) measures. The gigantic buildings clustered as Federal Government-owned Teaching Hospitals and Federal Medical Centers (FMCs) across the country are minute proportions of the hundreds of thousands of seen and unseen facilities offering varying forms, scope, and quality of healthcare services to the estimated 220 million population of Nigerians. The narrow approach by successive administrations that leads Federal and subnational governments to focus country-wide healthcare interventions solely on ‘typical’ hospitals has left weak results in its trail partly because it does not take into cognizance the fact that healthcare is a commodity inf