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Vice Chairman, National eGovernmen~ Strategies (NeGSt), Olu Agunloye has said that acute shortage of reliable database within federal ministries and agencies was affecting the government project.

Agunloye said at the inauguration of the strategy’s national office complex in Abuja Wednesday that without a reliable data base, the project would not achieve the desired result.

He said that the proliferation of stand-alone dedicated electronic payment systems and significant cases of cyber insecurity and crimes were other major challenges confronting the project.

Minister of Health, Professor Eyitayo Lambo, yesterday in Abuja endorsed the use of information technology-driven health care delivery system as a way of dispensing quick and reliable health services. He said until Nigeria adopts the option of telemedicine and other information technology aided approach, the reliasation of the millennium development goal of improving health care for all by next year will not be realizable.

The minister stated this yesterday at the commencement of a two-day workshop on Telemedicine and Health organized by the National eGovernment Strategies(NeGSt) in collaboration with Society for Telemedicine and Health in Nigeria(SFTehin).

The Nigerian Health care delivery system has crossed the digital divide with the deployment of ICT to meet the millennium goals in the sector. This was disclosed recently at a two day workshop and official launch of Telemedicine and eHealth held at the Digital Bridge Institute, Abuja by the National eGovernment Strategies (NeGSt) in collaboration with Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria (SFTeHIN).