Despite numerous challenges plaguing the nation’s health sector, a firm, eHealth Africa, Wednesday, disclosed that over 9 million doses of vaccines have been delivered via solution analysis to boost healthcare services in Nigeria.
This was made known by the Executive Director, ehealth Africa, Atef Fawaz, on the sidelines of the 2023 Insight Learning Forum organised by ehealth Africa.
Fawaz said Nigeria’s healthcare system is paramount to his organisation based on the challenges that could be solved via digital solutions.
He said: “Most of our solutions are all driven by an analysis of the need of what the problem is. So we always try to identify a problem and work around solving it and this was particularly the vaccine delivery solution was developed to make sure that no one is left unvaccinated due to logistical challenges.
“We all know the challenges in the whole nation when it comes to logistics, especially in very remote areas and the solution was developed to make sure that vaccines can reach everywhere at the same time the solution focused a lot on accountability and transparency.
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“So everyone could see at a point in time where the vaccines were picked from, and where were they delivered, so it’s a full system that allows monitoring of stocks, request of new stocks, and making sure that vaccines are delivered to very remote areas.
“We have proved that by running the project in Kano ,Bauchi , Zamfara and the programme is currently still running in Sokoto state and we deliver to basically all the health facilities.
“So this has been quite effective and has reduced stock outs to a bare minimum number.
“The impact is, as you can see the numbers I mean, more than 9 million doses of vaccines that have been delivered and this was never something that has ever been done before.
“So and this has direct impact on everyone’s health, you know, especially children that are from zero to five and need to get their routine immunisation. So it does have a direct impact on giving everyone a better health for the future.
“Most of our solutions are all driven by an analysis of the need of what the problem is. So we always try to identify a problem and work around solving it and this was particularly the vaccine delivery solution was developed to make sure that no one is left unvaccinated due to logistical challenges.”
However, he said there are a lot challenges but with the innovative ability Nigerians have the challenges can be handled.
“I think we have a lot of talent in the country a lot of skills, and I think its just to puts all of these in the right place for us to come up with innovative solutions and even be world leading in those solutions”, he added.
