Health sector in crises

Doctors seek drug subsidy as patients rush to prayer houses for solution to soaring cases of   hypertension, high blood pressure and obesity
 
From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Nigeria’s medical sector is in dire strait, as millions of citizens battle underlying illnesses without proper medication.
Some of these illnesses silently killing Nigerians are hypertension, high blood pressure, glaucoma, obesity, diabetes and lung diseases.
The scale of imminent collapse resonated recently in Abuja when the Deputy Director, Nursing Services at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, Joy Chioma Nwankwo, led a team of medical personnel to carry out an outreach at the Karu market.
Nwankwo noted that...