Guarantee Tertiary Care Within Every LGA

Every LGA is guaranteed tertiary medical capacity, while Geo-economic Zones coordinate ultra-specialist referral and research networks for capabilities too rare or costly to duplicate everywhere and the Federation maintains exceptional national apex capability, with patients free to cross Zonal boundaries whenever the appropriate care requires it.

Existing Federal Medical Centres, teaching hospitals, specialist institutions and other suitable health assets should be reused, networked, upgraded or redesignated before new construction is assumed, while specialty lists, designation criteria, referral arrangements and network mechanics belong in the Tertiary and Specialist Care Policy Papers.

The purpose is to keep the ordinary referral ladder close to citizens while pooling the rarest and most specialised capabilities at the scale where they can realistically be sustained.