University vice-chancellor calls for kidney care in primary health programme
Prof. Fatiu Arogundade has urged Nigeria’s Federal Government to include kidney care in the primary healthcare programme. He said the move would help address the country’s kidney disease burden. The supplied report does not provide further details about the proposal, its cost, or the government’s response.
Prof. Fatiu Arogundade, a university vice-chancellor, has called on the Federal Government to include kidney care in Nigeria’s primary healthcare programme. According to the report by Punch Nigeria, Arogundade made the appeal in response to what he described as the country’s kidney disease burden.
The proposal would place kidney-related care within the primary healthcare programme, although the supplied material does not specify which services should be included or how the change would be implemented. It also gives no details of the scale of kidney disease in Nigeria, the funding required, or whether the Federal Government has responded to the call. Arogundade’s appeal, as reported, is focused on making kidney care part of the country’s basic healthcare system as a way of tackling the disease burden.
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