The event, with the theme “The political economy of health; investing in the future of Nigeria,” aimed to provide a high-level platform for key stakeholders in policy, governance, economics, and healthcare to discuss the factors that influence Nigeria’s health policies.
The experts will focus on how political, social, and economic factors shape individual and population health outcomes; health service development within the economic and political context, and how to create a national health service that meets the needs of all Nigerians.
The president of the Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON) and the project director SOGON- PACFAH @Scale project, Habib Sadauki, spoke in the first-panel session tagged “The Economy of health”.
Speaking on the benefit of investing in reproductive health rights, highlighted the importance of health financing with a focus on women and children.