The National Economic Council on Thursday approved plans to renovate 17,000 basic healthcare institutions and 774 secondary healthcare centres around the country.
According to Prof. Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, the action was taken in response to financial deficiencies that had been detected and declining healthcare indicators.
Bala Mohammed, the governor of Bauchi State, gave State House Correspondents an overview of the government’s plan after Vice President Kashim Shettima conducted the 137th National Economic Council meeting at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja.
Governor Mohammed shared the takeaways from Pate’s talk, which emphasised the dire state of the healthcare industry.
“The presentation…dissected in terms of very robust sector scan on health, from the tertiary to the primary level, looking at all the gaps, the problems and challenges of funding,” Governor Mohammed said.
He bemoaned the harsh figures demonstrating a fall in health indices, such as newborn mortality rates, and said that the administration under Tinubu seeks to create a coalition of interested parties for comprehensive, long-lasting changes.
Consequently, he declared that the program’s renewal would cover “17,000 primary health centres to be put on a threshold of viability, 774 secondary facilities, that is, hospitals, in addition to some tertiary institutions.”
According to Mohammed, the goal of this extensive strategy is to “ensure that medicare is brought close to the majority of Nigerians.”
cc: Punch Ng
