2021: NEPZA to establish medical free zones in 15 states

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2021: NEPZA to establish medical free zones in 15 states

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Process (NEPZA), Prof. Adesoji Adesugba disclosed on Tuesday, that his agency was planning to establish 15 Medical Free zones in at least 15 states of the federation.

The MD according the Head, Corporate Affairs of NEPZA, Martins Odeh, made the pledge, while the President of the Health Care Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Dr Pamela Ajayi, paid him a courtesy call in Abuja.

The NEPZA helmsman revealed that “the torrential approaches from state governments to skew the location of the country’s novel Medical Free Zone to their states, had been overwhelming”, adding that “Deliberations on modalities for the creation of the zone,have reached an advance stage because we indeed drew members of the committee from the right places. Medical Experts, Zone Experts, Industrialists, Medical Equipment Manufacturers, are among those on the committee and this explains the speed of our progress.