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Aderibigbe M O Shonubi1, Olatunde Odusan, David O Oloruntoba
1Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria. amoshonubi@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract:
The World Health Organization's (WHO) concept of primary healthcare as the basis for comprehensive healthcare delivery for developing countries has not been effectively applied in many of these countries. The Kingdom of Lesotho, one of the world's least-developed countries, has been able to provide a fairly comprehensive healthcare system for its citizenry based on prmary healthcare principles and a strong commitment on the part of the government despite severe limitations of finance and human resource capacity as well as difficult mountainous terrains. This paper presents the highlights of this system of healthcare delivery with the hope that other developing countries would draw some lessons from the model.
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