By LADE BANDELE
How should a nation judge the performance of its health sector?”
Public life has an odd way of allowing the loudest questions to eclipse the most important ones.
A claim is made, a rebuttal follows, familiar positions harden, and attention gradually drifts from the matter under discussion to the argument surrounding it. Before long, the debate acquires a life of its own, and the original subject begins to disappear beneath the weight of opinion. Something of that sort has entered recent discussions about Nigeria’s health sector.
Public scrutiny is neither an inconvenience nor an intrusion. It is one of the disciplines by which democratic societies hold themselves accountable. Governments should expect it, and those entrusted with public institutions should never shrink from it.
