As a monument to African innovation and a bold step toward Nigeria’s emergence as a global healthcare hub, President Bola Tinubu has officially inaugurated the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) in Abuja.
The initiative aims to renovate over 17,000 primary health centres, train 120,000 frontline health workers, and double national health insurance coverage within three years.
At the ceremony of the AMCE, President Tinubu, who was represented by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima highlighted reforms and investments made since inception into office, including the signing of an Executive Order to unlock the healthcare value chain and the launch of the Presidential Initiative to Unlock the Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC).
These policies, he said, had intensified local pharmaceutical production, improved regulatory systems, and expanded access to diagnostics.
According to him, the facility would also host the largest stem cell laboratory in West Africa and expand to include a teaching hospital, nursing school, and residential quarters for medical personnel.
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, said that with the establishment of the Afreximbank African Medical Centre of Excellence, Nigeria will be healthier and wealthier than before.
Earlier, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of African Export-Import Bank, Prof Benedict Orama, said the event was a testimony that the society was better-off serving others and added that one of the contributions he could make to Africa was to help Afreximbank “to deliver on its well structured strategy on medical care delivery and with Star Alliance, Kings College Hospital in London and twelve years of sick medical experience, the African Medical Centre of Excellence opens its door in Abuja.
This is just as the country has secured over $2.2 billion in health sector commitments through the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, launched by the Tinubu administration in December 2023.
