World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) the world’s leading advisor on business strategy across a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, energy, consumer goods, have concluded arrangements to provide health interventions for Nigeria’s states using public private partnership platform to overhaul healthcare delivery system.
Boston Consulting Group, a trusted partner of several private and public organizations and governments, with several offices in Africa and a knowledge partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) globally is co-leading the health system leapfrogging project in Nigeria with a pilot project in Ogun, Lagos and Bayelsa states, having established a pact with leading private organisations on comparative finance and logistics in the identified states.
The Primary healthcare’s initiative, according to WEF and BCG pact, is planned to boost Nigeria’s healthcare delivery through exploration of e-healthcare administration and service delivery, seed-funding for insurance premium, concession of public facilities to private operators, provision of renewable energy for healthcare facilities, sourcing of medical products and equipment, introduction of drug-testing technology among others in the country.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s healthcare workshop held in conjunction with Boston Consulting Group, African Health Market for Equity (AHME) and Ogun State Ministry of Health in Abeokuta during the week, Emre Ozcan, from Boston Consulting Group disclosed that WEF and BCG are bringing private sector to Nigeria and Ogun state to see how collaborate with private sector on primary healthcare interventions.
He said, “the outcome is to better finance health system for people’s satisfaction. Our primary objective here is to design a package of initiatives that could be critically established to improve the health system in Nigeria and Ogun state.”
“We are also trying to encourage match-making to understand which private sector and public investors that can help this initiative in terms of resources, expertise, coordination of health programme and management, especially in the country like Nigeria where private sector is very vibrant and looking for a lot of opportunities, may be in terms of CSR or Business development to work with government. We are very happy that Ogun state is taking the lead to start the initiative of this nature.” He said.
But, Arnaud Bernaert, Senior Director, Head of Global Health and Healthcare Industries, WEF, said on the health programme: “We are looking into areas that could be about better training for the workforce, we are looking into connectivity of patients, we are looking into implementing right healthcare protocol in Primary care clinics as Ogun state is developing this Araya Healthcare network concept with the facilitation of some new clinics getting into the network.
“It is a combination of having connectivity to patients, being able to follow-up patients and being able to implement right care protocol with a very well-trained workforce.”
Olaokun Soyinka, Commissioner for Health said: “The bottom-line of the programme is that we are working with private sector as partners to identify some very high impacts leapfrogging opportunities that we can bring into Ogun state healthcare system to benefit the good people of Ogun state and an example is mobile health technology; mobile phones for various aspects of health.”
RAZAQ AYINLA
