In this interview with LARA ADEJORO, Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, discusses the challenges of revitalising the country’s primary healthcare centres and plans for improvement
The Federal Government promised to revitalise primary care centres but according to a report, only 6,000 of the country’s 30,000 PHCs are operational. What is delaying the promise made to revitalise the centres?
This led to the Minister of Health, through the NPHCDA, launching the PHC Re-Imagining Strategy to enable a holistic transformation of the PHC landscape in Nigeria at the Presidential PHC Summit in 2022. The most critical delay has been the mobilisation of financial resources for the PHC Re-Imagining strategy, which is currently ongoing. Already the private sector has pledged to transform 774 PHCs — one per LGA—and based on current committed funding from the FG through the BHCPF and partner-based funding from the IMPACT project, we expect to add 3,000 to 5,000 PHCs over the next year to 18 months.
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