By Christiana Ekpa

 

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has urged the Chinese business men and other industrialists operating in Nigeria’s health sector to reduce the importation of medical equipment and consider establishing assembly plants for production.

Kalu made the call when he received in audience a delegation from the Royal Meditech Equipments (Nig) Company Limited led by its Director, Gari Li over the weekend in Abuja.

He said that the federal government is currently pursuing a health security programme through industrialization.

Kalu added that the present economic weather in Nigeria does not support much of importation of goods and services because of the challenges the Naira is facing.

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He therefore challenged the company to develop the intention of establishing a facility in Nigeria that will produce Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilators, feeding pump and other essential machines, emphasizing the idea will also create jobs of the unemployed people.

He said: “Our nation is currently pursuing health security through industrialization. This idea happens to be an outcome of post Covid analysis where the dependence of our country was hinged in the provisions from other countries. We noticed that basic things were not locally sourced. Most of them were sourced across the borders.

“And based on that, the current administration, to forestall such happening again, is focusing on the policy that will increase indigenous support system for our health structures.

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I’m happy when I had that you have even been here from 2010. So, when the COVID era happened and the challenges we faced, you saw it firsthand.

“The encouragement of this government is to the fact that organizations like yours will begin to find reasons to build presence beyond administrative small business units locally into assembling facilities that will give us more sense of health security. Having gone through some of the things that you provide,

I’m sure that even if we don’t get all produced in this country, leveraging your knowledge in these ways, that you could pick few of them to be assembled here in Nigeria, to be manufactured here in Nigeria.”

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