Press Release from UNTH Foundation for International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, affordable public health care is seen as a way to ‘Invest in Women. And Accelrate Progress’.
March 8th 2024. As the world marks International Women’s Day, it is important to bring attention to the important role that public healthcare plays in empowering women around the world and promoting gender equality. The theme for this year is “Invest in Women and Accelerate Progress,” which encourages people and groups to fight gender bias and unfairness, making the future more fair and open to everyone. It’s impossible to say enough about how important it is for women to have access to quality, affordable health care. It’s a key factor in their empowerment and growth.
Everyone has the right to access healthcare, and public healthcare systems are very important for making sure that everyone gets the services they need. Women can get the medical care they need to live healthy lives and be useful members of their families and communities at public hospitals like the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH). Tertiary and primary healthcare levels take care of different parts of women’s health, making them stronger and more capable. These levels offer complete reproductive health services as well as preventive care.
International Women’s Day is a good time to remember how important it is to adequately fund public health care towards ensuring that all women, no matter where they live or how much money they have, can get complete and easy-to-reach health care..
Let’s fight the things that make it hard for women to get good health care on International Women’s Day. Funding public healthcare is like putting money into empowering women, reducing gender inequality, and making society more open to everyone. Let’s work together to make sure that all women have the same chances in life so that they can live healthy, happier lives.
About UNTH Foundation
The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Foundation was founded in December 2021 as an independent, non-profit, and apolitical organisation in Nigeria. In 2023, it was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charity organisation in the United States.
The Foundation was primarily created to mobilise funding, medical equipment, assistance for staff training and exchange programmes, research, and policy engagement, funding that enables indigent people to access quality healthcare, community and public engagement on healthcare-related interventions, and foster healthcare entrepreneurship at UNTH and throughout Nigeria. The Foundation envisions being a role model for facilitating quality, cost-effective, and available healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
