Private sector key to health system reforms — ANPMP

•Says it delivers attraction to 70% of Nigerians without enactment oregon strikes

By Chioma Obinna

Private healthcare providers successful Lagos person urged the authorities to fortify and formally recognise the relation of the backstage assemblage successful gathering a resilient wellness system, informing that continued neglect threatens to deepen Nigeria’s healthcare and economical crises.

The practitioners nether the auspices of the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners (ANPMP) up of its upcoming ANPMP Annual Scientific Conference themed “Building Resilient Private Health Systems successful Lagos State: A Driver of Public Private Collaboration, Economic Stability and Good Governance, said its members person softly sustained healthcare transportation for decades contempt mediocre infrastructure, rising vigor costs, insecurity, and the wide exodus of aesculapian personnel.

Addressing a property league successful Lagos, the Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, Dr. Jonathan Esegine, said: “We person enactment successful truthful overmuch successful organising this league owed to the legally unrecognised relation of backstage healthcare providers. For 104 years, our Association has been the gateway to grassroots healthcare due to the fact that we are ever disposable and accessible.”

“This year’s conference, themed “Building Resilient Private Health Systems successful Lagos State: A Driver of Public Private Collaboration, Economic Stability and Good Governance billed to clasp connected September 10th done 11th, 2025, successful Lagos promises 2 days of maestro classes, sheet discussions, and sessions connected sub themes specified arsenic technology’s relation successful prime assurance, economical pressures connected healthcare services, and argumentation interaction crossed governance tiers,”  helium stated.

Esegine emphasised the conference’s assemblage focus, noting a escaped glaucoma oculus screening for each delegates, an inaugural reflecting the conference’s nationalist wellness commitment.

He stressed that backstage doctors stay the archetypal constituent of telephone for Nigerians, often treating patients who get without wealth and moving successful life-threatening conditions.

“Energy costs unsocial instrumentality astir 40 per cent of our wellness expenditure. Yet we cannot transportation these costs to patients, particularly successful emergencies.

“We participate the streets astatine night, not caring for our ain information but for our patients’. Still, erstwhile things spell wrong, we are the archetypal to beryllium vilified,” helium said.

The doctors said the authorities failed to make an enabling situation to clasp healthcare workers, noting that nurses and doctors are leaving successful droves portion those near down conflict nether harsh conditions.

The Chairman, who said this year’s league volition beryllium different, said Nigeria is not abbreviated of ideas but of implementation.”

We don’t spell connected strike, truthful we deficiency coercive power. All we tin bash is support speaking, with the anticipation that the authorities volition someday act,” helium added.

Also speaking, the Chairman Local Organizing Committee, Dr. Tunde Akintade, called for authorities subsidies to enactment backstage healthcare the mode it erstwhile supported manufacturers.

“Private doctors supply attraction to implicit 70 per cent of Nigerians, yet we get small oregon nary support. During COVID-19, we turned to telemedicine, but authorities has not invested successful subsidised wellness technology.

The aforesaid mode SIM cards dropped from N32,000 to astir escaped done subsidy, wellness exertion tin beryllium made accessible if the authorities partners with us,” helium said.

The doctors besides criticised the existent operation of Nigeria’s wellness insurance, informing that combining the roles of regulator and money head undermines transparency and erodes trust.

They urged Lagos State and the Federal Government to supply taxation alleviation for backstage practitioners, connection vigor enactment to trim crippling costs, warrant information for healthcare workers, and betterment wellness security to guarantee fairness...