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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nigeria is
once again on the roller caster of a new clinche
“2010” with health care reform as
one of the major pivots of the vision. The tremendous rate our medical
personnel’s (Doctor and Nurses) travels out of the country for greener pasture
has caused
More harm to his country than
good.
The percentage of death rate as a
result of treatment by in experienced Doctor and Nurses are numerous. Our
intelligent and future hopes were deformed by one disease or the other because
of treatment by non-experts.
ODUTOLA, (1997) in his book
demonstrated that “our hospitals have become mere consulting clinics”.
“Our
health care system has collapsed”
“Our
hospital are short everything”
What then is our hope and aim
towards achieving the goal of vision 2010.
This motivated the researcher to
identify the problems and prospects of financing Health care Delivery in
Nigeria.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The research
work is concerned with the problems and prospects of financing health care
delivery programme in Nigeria. The level of service offered to the health
system is very low. This is with particular reference to staff attitudes and
performance. They cried bitterly of their salary as to compare to other co-medical
personeels in other countries. They were promised to be paid, but was not
effective some of them decided to travel out of country for better future.
Some hospitals
requires refurbishment and other need certain amenities, but none was done,
rather they were closed down and some becomes unfuctional Hospitals preemies
are littered with broken down equipment and unopened create of new equipment
with no place for installation. The
patronage of the government health facilities is very low.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To
find out the effect of inadequate fund on hospital facilities.
2. To
verify the utilization of fund allocated on hospital facilities.
3. To
study the influence of hospital salary on medical personnel.
4. To ascertain if the medical personeels were
paid according to the economic to the approval government scales.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. How
does inadequacy of fund on hospital facilities affect the
economic growth of Nigeria.
2. How
are the funds allocated on hospital facilities used.
3. Does
the salary of the medical personnel’s seem favorable seem favorable to them.
4. Were
the medical personnel’s paid as they are supposed to.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
Health
concerned each and every member of our society directly or in directly,
individual or collectively, consciously or unconsciously. The beneficiaries
include the entire country at large. The government and the citizens.
The Entire country – The attainment of good health by the people
of one state in the federation, which lead to social and economically
productive life at the highest possible level.
The Government – In a country where the individuals were healthy, there
is a tendency that the work force will be strong and productive.
The Citizens – Intellectuals and competent intelligent people should not loss their lives as a result of
diseases and infections. People can engaged themselves in one activity or the
other thereby making something useful to the country.
LIMITATION
OF THE STUDY
Those aspects of health left were
as have of time – The researcher do not have the time of going from one state
to another for the collection of data, as a result, they were left out.
Finance – There is no money for
the researcher to the moving round the states of the federation for data
collection and in some place, there will be no data available.
Lack of accurate data – Most data
seen were not accurate to the topic
involved in the project
DEFINTION
OF TERMS
PROBLEM OF FINANCING – Difficulties
in raising fund.
PROSPECT OF FINANCING – Expected
way of raising fund.
HEALTH CARE – Organized
effort at the National, state or community level to deliver service in order to
attain a set of pre-determined health related goals.
MEDICAL PERSONEELS – Those
responsible for ones state of health example; the medical Doctors, Nurses, Lab
technologist, Pharmacist etc.
TO MEDICAL PERSONEELS – Counter
parts of medical personnel’s in other areas.
HEALTH INSTITUTIONS – This
means any hospital, clinic or nursing home or associated Institutions,
convalescent home or specialized services maintained by the government, used
for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from any sickness, injury
or bodily or mentally infirmity birth or Immediately after child birth for the
purpose of providing such person with nursing or surgical attention.
TERTIARY HEALTH CARE – They
handle cases that the secondary health care cannot handle. They are the
teaching Hospitals, Specialist Hospital and Special and Hospitals.
SECONDARY HEALTH CARE- Cases/sickness
where the clinics are unable to cope, it will be referred to secondary. They
are state owned General Hospitals; Private owned Hospitals and Voluntary Agency
Hospitals.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE- These
are clinics, Health centers where one usually go for the first treatment. They
are responsible to refer where they are unable to handle.
REFERENCES
ERONINI E.M (1995) “A New approach to health care
financing in
Nigeria”
Page
46 – 48.
ORJIH .J. (1996) “Business Research Methodology”
Methodology”
Mbtesoy
Publicity Co. Enugu
PP.
37 – 41, 203 – 204.
ODUTOLA. A.B. (1997) “Visioning
Health care in Nigeria by the year
2010 and beyond”
Health Issues; No 03 P
Page 2-3
COWIE A.P (1993) Oxford Advanced Learners DICTIONARY.
Oxford
University Press.
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