The report said medical oxygen cost as high as N30,000 daily per patient. It added that the majority of patients can ill afford the cost and that it is worse for those who have extended stay in hospital for up two to three weeks. Such patients are in addition made to pay other hospital charges. With the economy of the country only very few persons can afford it. Thousands of those who cannot are, therefore, left to their fate.
Agency report a few months ago also said demand for cylinders in Lagos went from around 70 per day early last year to as high as 500 daily from November.
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On World Sickle Cell Day (19th June 2021) the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, announced through his Facebook and Instagram pages that hydroxyurea, a disease-modifying therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD) will now be provided under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve the health of people living with SCD in Ghana.
This announcement followed a meeting he convened on 8th June 2021, with stakeholders including Professor Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (Foundation), Hon. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister for Health, Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby, Chief Executive, National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Patrick Kumah Aboagye, Director General, Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, Special Advisor to the President on Health, and Mr. Roland Hammond-Addo of Novartis.
Olaoluwa Awojoodu
Four out of every 10 Nigerians, more than 82.9 million people live in poverty according to a 2020 report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The World Poverty Clock estimated the figure to be 86.9 million in 2018, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported in 2019 that 98 million Nigerians are living in multidimensional poverty. No matter the source, the indication remains that an alarming number of Nigerians are poor, one needs no reminder that in 2018, Nigeria overtook India, as the poverty capital of the world, and with the outbreak of COVID-19 making matters worse, many Nigerians lost their source of income or experienced income cuts. Given these circumstances, the World Bank predicts that an additional 15-20 million people could be pushed below the poverty line by 2022. This is an issue that deserves significant national attention and that should be dominating public discourse because of the sheer scale of the problem and the implic