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Nigeria's COVID-19 Investments Created an Opportunity to Strengthen the Health Infrastructure. Will the Country Sustain the Gains?

Aug 24, 2026
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By Mahdi Garba | August 24, 2026

Nigeria’s COVID-19 Investments Created an Opportunity to Strengthen the Health Infrastructure. Will the Country Sustain the Gains?

A long terrazzo walkway from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH)’s administrative building leads to various parts of the ever-busy facility. Underneath the trees that line up the walkway are patients’ relatives near the wards and other buildings. Within the wards of this tertiary healthcare facility are functional medical equipment like defibrillators, infusion pumps, ECG monitors, […]

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COVID-19 Funding Built New Health Infrastructure. Will Nigeria Build on It or Lose It?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 10, 2026

Oluwafolakemi Ajala (Guest writer) The arrival of COVID-19 in Nigeria in early 2020 exposed long-standing weaknesses in oxygen supply, diagnostics, surveillance, emergency response coordination and public health funding. In health facilities, access to medical oxygen was often inadequate and unreliable, and laboratory infrastructure was fragmented. Surveillance systems were under-resourced, and genomic sequencing capacity was limited, […]

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