ABSTRACT
Unacceptable health status indicators such as high infant and maternal mortality rates and low life expectancy have continued unabated inspite of government efforts to change it. This paper espouses the concept of stewardship as a selfless, ethical, cost effective and outcome oriented approach to governance. It is believed that through stewardship approach government would improve the health status of their population considerably. The paper implores not monly government andn health care managers but the Nigerian society also to imbibe the concept of stewardship to make the development of a result-oriented health system easy.