Event Description

Posted Sat, Jul 27, 2024 8:16 PM

Timeframe: Tue, Aug 20, 2024 1:00 PM - Tue, Aug 20, 2024 3:00 PM

Strengthening Healthcare Regulatory Bodies in Nigeria

Nigeria, with a population exceeding 200 million, faces profound challenges in its healthcare sector, exacerbated by a weak regulatory environment. Regulatory bodies responsible for overseeing healthcare operations and ensuring compliance with standards struggle with inadequate resources, limited enforcement capabilities, and outdated legal frameworks. These deficiencies have far-reaching implications, contributing to a proliferation of unlicensed medical practitioners, substandard healthcare facilities, and unsafe medical products. Such conditions not only compromise the quality of healthcare services but also undermine public trust and deter much-needed investment in the sector.

The repercussions of ineffective regulation are stark: increased healthcare costs, preventable morbidity and mortality, and a widening disparity in healthcare access and quality across the country. Addressing these challenges requires urgent and coordinated efforts to strengthen regulatory bodies, enhance their capacity to enforce standards, and foster an environment conducive to sustainable healthcare development.

This pre-Summit webinar seeks to discuss the challenges in Nigeria’s healthcare regulatory framework with the aim to develop actionable recommendations for enhancing regulatory capacity towards more effective healthcare regulation in Nigeria.