The federal government said on Monday that it will work closely with state governments and development partners to increase the number of Primary Healthcare Centres, or PHCs, from 8,300 to 17,600 across the country over the next four years.
This ambitious commitment will be reinforced by the training of 120,000 frontline health workers, which is slated to begin soon as part of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
Prof Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, said this in his Keynote presentation at the two-day North East Forum of Honourable Commissioners of Health, which began in Maiduguri.
Pate, who was represented by the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Muyi Aina, said the Agency’s three-pronged strategic approach includes institutional strengthening and effective coordination of all primary healthcare services, efficient, equitable, quality, and trustworthy services, and strong collaboration with all stakeholders towards achieving frontline health security and routine basic health care services amo
He underlined the importance of collaborative interventions by federal, state, and development partners that are more people-centered and well-coordinated in order to accomplish overall sustainable goals.
He regretted that the North East, like much of Nigeria, continues to have unacceptable health outcomes, necessitating strong coordination rather than fragmentation of efforts at the national and subnational levels.
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