FG COMMISSIONS GIGANTIC MEDICAL WAREHOUSE IN ABUJA

In its quest to ensure a safe and healthy environment for storage of medical facilities in the country, the Federal Government has commissioned the largest medical warehouse in Abuja.

 The facility named “Premier Medical Warehouse” according to a statement from the Federal Ministry of Health and signed by Mrs. Boade Akinola, its Director, Media and Public Relations, is to be used as a medical storage facility to drugs and other medical commodities procured by Federal Government of Nigeria or donated by partners before final distribution to the end users.

The Honourable Minister for Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole while commissioning the facility on Monday 14^th August, 2017, stated that, the facility was a product of joint effort between the Federal Government and partners. 

“I want to declare publically that within this country, I am yet to see facility like this, so I truly agree that this is the work of our partnership”.

"There are three things that constitute good health system, Human Resources, Drugs/ Commodities available in the facility and Data emanating from the facility. The three things are complementing one another and it is only when the three are put to gather that a strong health system would have been built", Prof. Adewole explained.

  

“A facility that had human resources and there are no commodities, people will go there only once, they are not likely to come back, if there is no data you cannot really fine tune what is going on, you cannot determine progress and so to me what we are doing is actually to put in place a strong system that will deliver commodity in good qualities or in good shape to our people”.

The Honourable Minister thanked the US Government and GlobalFund for supporting the project while also, assured that the Ministry will work with private stakeholders in the management of the facility. 

The facility in Abuja will take care of the northern part of the country while the other one in Lagos would services the entire southern part of the Nigeria, he said.

  

"For us in the Ministry, we would ensure that we put all that is necessary to ensure that this facility is put to use, we would advertise it, we would let people know and we would provide oversight for the management”, he said.

The Health Minister said that the facility would also provide opportunity for building capacity so that overtime, the Ministry would be able to replicate it in other parts of the country.

The US Mission Director in Nigeria, Mr. Stephen Haykins, in his remarks, said that the Premier Warehouse in Abuja and Lagos would overcome the challenges of  warehousing and distribution of drugs in Nigeria.