A nother health sector reform that will result in the creation of 8,800 primary health care centres in all the 774 local government areas of the country has been approved by President Bola Tinubu.
The move will also lead to the creation of National Health Fellows’ Programme, which will result in the engagement of Nigerian fellows in all the 774 local government areas of Nigeria.
This initiative, according to Tinubu Media Centre, is an expression of the President’s commitment to comprehensively upgrade existing primary healthcare centres across the country.
This Centre added that the initiative would foster “accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms.”
Other features of the initiative are as follows:
– The well-trained fellows will serve as fiduciary agents to monitor and track primary healthcare centre development and performance, which is to be assiduously measured against all financial inflows to the centres nationwide.
– The fellowship programme will be domiciled in the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) coordination office under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
– The fellows will be recruited, renumerated and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities nationwide.
– President Tinubu, who is the African Union Champion for Human Resources in Healthcare, has strong faith in young Nigerians, and expects that their engagement in this critical nation- building task, which also includes daily monitoring and tracking of health reforms in their locations, will usher in a new era of world-class service provision to all Nigerians in every part of the country.