Abstract

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pathetic nature of the Nigeria healthcare system has become more glaring. In First World countries, the ravaging nature of the pandemic, marked by a high death toll, elicits trepidation among Nigerian citizens. What is more, these fears are not necessarily as a result of the lethal nature of COVID-19 but rather, they are consequent of certain conditions amongst which include: an inept and unconcerned leadership, accompanied by dilapidated health institutions characterized by poor working conditions and incentives. It is in lieu of these unhealthy conditions that the dreaded disease found its footing in the Nigerian environment. Against this background, this paper argues that the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, its local dispersion occasioned by paucity of medical personnel and supplies due to decades of neglect of health care system is worrisome. This study recommends an overhaul of the healthcare system with the aim of achieving a robust health care system for Nigerian citizens. Thus far, various scholars have focused on corrupt leadership practices of Nigerian leaders without a detailed and in-depth study on the nexus between the health sector and this failure. It is this obvious gap in scholarship that this present study sets out to fill. The paper adopts a qualitative approach which will be anchored on primary and secondary sources of historical methodology. Thus, its significance lies in its ability to bring to the fore the nexus between leadership failure in Nigeria and the neglect of primary healthcare system. It will also expose the vulnerability of the Nigerian rich and poor in the face of the global pandemic Table 1 Table 2.Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership questionAll authorsNgozika Anthonia Obi-Ani,Dominic Obinna Ezeaku,Ogechi Ikem,Mathias Chukwudi Isiani ,Paul Obi-Ani &Onu Janefrances Chisolum |https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1859075

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Table 1. As demonstrated inTable 1, from 2009 to 2013, no Nigerian health budget was neither up to 6% of its total budget nor 1% of its GDP

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Table 2. NCDC weekly reports on epidemics

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Covid-19大流行与尼日利亚初级卫生保健系统：领导力问题

摘要

自Covid-19大流行爆发以来，尼日利亚医疗保健系统的可悲性质变得更加明显。在第一世界国家，以高死亡人数为特征的大流行性疾病使尼日利亚公民感到恐惧。而且，这些恐惧不一定是由于COVID-19的致命性质造成的，而是某些条件造成的，这些条件包括：领导无能而无所顾忌，伴随着工作条件差，卫生条件残旧的卫生机构以及激励措施。代替这些不健康的状况，这可怕的疾病在尼日利亚的环境中立足。在这种背景下，本文认为尼日利亚爆发了Covid-19大流行，由于数十年来对医疗保健系统的忽视，医护人员和物资稀少而造成的当地分散状况令人担忧。本研究建议对医疗保健系统进行大修，以期为尼日利亚公民建立一个健壮的医疗保健系统。迄今为止，许多学者都集中研究了尼日利亚领导人的腐败领导行为，而没有对卫生部门与这一失败之间的联系进行详细而深入的研究。本研究旨在填补这一明显的学术空白。本文采用定性方法，将以历史方法论的主要和次要来源为基础。因此，其重要意义在于它能够使尼日利亚领导层失败与对初级医疗体系的忽视之间的联系更加突出。Covid-19大流行与尼日利亚初级卫生保健系统：领导力问题所有作者Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani，Dominic Obinna Ezeaku，Ogechi Ikem，Mathias Chukwudi Isiani ，Paul Obi-Ani和Onu Janefrances Chisolum | https：//doi.org/ 10.1080 / 23311983.2020.1859075

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表1. 如表1所示，从2009年到2013年，尼日利亚的卫生预算均未达到预算总额的6％，也未达到GDP的1％

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表2. NCDC关于流行病的每周报告

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