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Report of ministerial advocacy visit
Report of Health Summit

Programmatically, The Health Unit of the Church and Society department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) drives the medical and health services mandate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).

Specifically, it provides technical support and programmatic backbone to the sub-national (diocesan) health services in their implementation of the respective Health and related policies.

The Health Unit interfaces with governments and development partners on policy dialogue, programmes and health systems strengthening.

The Health Unit participates at the National Assembly Primary Health Care Revitalization Committee and other health policy initiatives of the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH).

Success Story

We can only thank God for the sustainable growth and societal impact over the past years. .

Advocacy visit to Hon. Minister for Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on incorporation of Natural Family Planning into national Family Planning curriculum & SOP (2013).

In 2013, the Unit initiated interactions with the FMoH on the need to expand family planning services through the inclusion of scientific Natural Family Planning (NFP) into the national family planning mix. A delegation of the CBCN was led by Bishop Lucius Ugorji, Bishop Anselm Umoren, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey and Dr. Emmanuel Okechukwu. Subsequently, presentations were made to the National Reproductive Health Working Group (Airport Hotel, 2014); ministerial roundtable (2014) with the FMoH’s Reproductive Health Unit and thematic consultants (Prof. Michael Asuzu, Dr. Henrietta Williams and Rev. Sr. Lionel McSweeney, MFR). In December 2015, a final review meeting was held in Kaduna to incorporate the three scientific NFP methods into the national FP training curriculum and SOP for health workers in Nigeria. The scientific NFP methods are: Love & Life (derived from Billings), Sympto-Thermal method and the Creighton Model/NaProtechnology (Natural Procreative Technology).

Special Objectives of the Catholic Health Services

As health provider, employer and advocate of a health service of the utmost ethical standards, our ministry is an enduring sign of health rooted in the belief that every person is a treasure, every life a sacred gift and every human being a unity of body, mind and soul which must function in unity. We work to bring alive, the Gospel vision of justice and peace in answer to God’s call to foster healing, to act with compassion and to promote the well-being of all persons and communities. We pay special attention to our neighbours who are poor, under-served and most vulnerable. We strive to transform hurt into hope, despair into determination and corruption into compassionate correction.

  • Providing high quality, effective, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services
  • Promoting human dignity and respect for human life at all times and at all its stages
  • Caring for the marginalized, the disabled and disadvantaged in the community
  • Optimal development and utilization of all human resources for health care
  • Providing effective primary health care in all the communities wherever we can do so
  • Providing pastoral care for patients, staff and their dependents
  • Promoting Natural Family Planning (NFP) as an important component of all Catholic health services and developing the natural reproductive component thereof (NOVApp Technology, NaProtechnology, etc.).
  • Providing specific services to people whose health conditions predispose them to social discrimination or marginalization (e.g., HIV/AIDS, TB, leprosy, the disabled, the elderly, the destitute or mentally ill).
  • Maintaining the utmost standards of ethical and up to date practices reminiscent of the Catholic health services.
  • Promoting basic training and re-training of health care professionals at all levels through formal and informant methods.
  • Developing capacity for the Catholic health services to respond to emergencies and natural disasters.
  • Maintaining a holistic, balanced and gender-sensitive approach to health care delivery.
  • Collaborating with relevant government and non-governmental organizations to deliver effective health care.
  • Ensuring that services were in keeping with ethical and moral teachings of the Church.
  • Ensuring that our services are in conformity with government regulations, which do not contradict the Hippocratic and Catholic ethical and moral teachings.
  • Beginning the development and advancement of specific hospice care within the Catholic health services as well as beyond it.