Nigerian govt inducts new health fellows, tasks youths on reforms drive

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has inducted a caller batch of National Health Fellows, with a telephone connected young Nigerians to instrumentality the pb successful driving reforms crossed the country’s wellness sector.

The improvement was announced successful a media little shared by the Ministry pursuing the graduation of the pioneer cohort and onboarding of a 2nd batch successful Abuja connected March 27, 2026.

Speaking astatine the event, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, urged the fellows to spot the programme arsenic much than a learning platform.

“This is an accidental to thrust meaningful alteration crossed Nigeria’s wellness sector,” helium said, charging them to use innovation, skills, and enactment successful improving the system.

The Ministry explained that the National Health Fellows Programme is portion of ongoing efforts to groom a caller procreation of reform-driven leaders to enactment wellness assemblage translation nether the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

“The National Health Fellows Programme is simply a flagship inaugural designed to physique a pipeline of highly skilled, reform-oriented leaders to enactment ongoing wellness assemblage translation efforts nether the Renewed Hope Agenda,” the connection read.

It added that the 2nd cohort had earlier been introduced during the Na...