Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) have not played any major role in the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria, in spite of huge expenditure on the facilities...
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In the five years from 2015 to 2019, N912.9million, N2 billion , N1billion , N779million, and N840milion respectively were allocated to the construction and equipping of 182 PHCs in different communities across the country. Interestingly, these expenditures do not cover other overheads like procurement of buses, health awareness campaigns, and so on.
Because of the failure to provide PHCs in every community in the country, Nigerians are taking up the role at the community level. Confirming the absence of PHCs from the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria, the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale in a statement on June 5 said PHCs have been “under-emphasised and relegated to the background in the scheme of things.”
NPHCDA said it recently organised a virtual training programme for primary health workers to help reduce community transmission of COVID-19 in the country. But in May, when one of our trackers visited the Ikot Oku Model Health Centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, a worker at the facility said they had not received any training on how to handle COVID-19 cases. He said the health centre only received a bucket tap, a hand sanitiser, four pieces of nose masks and gloves.According to the official the facility is understaffed and may not be able to play any significant role in the fight against the pandemic.
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