Nigeria internationally and locally is noted for its deplorable health system. Health infrastructure in Nigeria is at its low ebb as most health institutions battle with age long problem of weak, defective, insufficient and obsolete infrastructure. More so, poor maintenance culture that has pervaded most sectors of Nigeria also constitute a challenge in this sector especially as it relates to maintenance of building, medical equipment and vehicles. Other issues such as: poor management of drugs, shortage of drugs, expiry of drugs and vaccines, faulty compounding of drugs, shortage of health practitioner, poor use of telemedicine etc. are other factors bedeviling this sector. Despite several agitations and outcry on the deplorable health infrastructure and health system in Nigeria, efforts made by the government to revamp this sector is discouraging particularly against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic which further exposed the deplorable state of Nigeria’s health infrastructure. This paper elicits attention into the Nigeria’s deplorable state of health infrastructure, by stressing the need for Nigeria to act now in improving her health infrastructure especially in the face of COVID-19 pandemic, future pandemics and best practices obtainable in other climes. While discussing the importance of good health infrastructure, the paper discusses challenges to the development of health infrastructure in Nigeria and comparatively considered Rwanda as a best practice in this regard in proffering solutions to health infrastructural development in Nigeria.
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Health-System, Health Infrastructure, Coronavirus, Major Infrastructure Deficit, African Countries, Nigeria
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