By Chioma Umeha
One of the leading and diversified non-government
organisation dedicated to improving access to better healthcare in Africa,
PharmAccess Foundation Nigeria, is partnering with Nigeria Healthcare
Excellence Award (NHEA 2017).
Under this new arrangement, one of the award
category has been named after them – PharmAccess Innovative Healthcare Service
Provider of the Year.
Speaking on the partnership, Dr. Shola Alabi, NHEA
Project Coordinator says, “We were very excited to welcome PharmAccess on board
again this year after the support we received from them in NHEA 2016. Their
commitment and steadfastness to improve healthcare in Nigeria cannot be over
emphasized”.
Alabi also reiterated the fact that nominations
for the 4th edition of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA 2017) is
still on-going. He called on stakeholders in the health sector to visit
www.nigeriahealthawards.com.ng to either make their nominations online or
download the nomination form.
Mrs. Njide Ndili, PharmAccess Nigeria Country
Director, spoke about their motivation for supporting the award. “This is our
second year of partnership with NHEA to recognise excellence in healthcare
quality. At PharmAccess Foundation, our objective is to facilitate innovation
to improve access, efficiency in service delivery with continuous and sustained
improvement in healthcare especially for the low-income communities in Africa
and Nigeria in particular. NHEA presents one of those credible platforms to
recognize and reward these objectives.”
Winners of the various categories will be honoured
on Friday, June 23, 2017 at Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos. Nominations will
close on May 26, 2017 before the commencement of online voting to enable the
award jury select the winners of the various categories.
About 23 awards and recognitions will be presented
at the ceremony. It is made up of three main categories; Special Awards, Healthcare
Delivery Services and Biomedical Technology.
PharmAccess Foundation mobilizes public and
private sector resources for the benefit of healthcare providers and patients
through clinical standards and quality improvements, loans for healthcare
providers, health insurance, mhealth innovations and operational research.
NHEA is organised by Global Health Project and
Resources (GHPR) in collaboration with Anadach Group, USA.
