'We are setting the following agenda and urging Governor Uba Sani to, as a matter of urgency, put mechanisms in place to implement them.'
working under the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale, PACFaH@Scale, PAS, a Bill and Melinda Gates funded project in Nigeria, which is a social accountability project, aiming to strengthen the capacity of Nigerian Civil Society Organisations at National and State levels to hold decision makers to account and comply with commitments in child and family health policies , financial obligations and to bring down regulatory and administrative barriers to effective and...
As we all know, the health system of Kaduna State went through a lot of transformations following a high-level political commitment from the Executive and Legislature while partners and CSOs supported it. The above saw the review of laws and policies, rehabilitation/reconstruction, equipping of 255 PHCs and budgetary allocation for health. dRPC-PAS through the Coalition of CSOs worked on evidence-based advocacies, town hall meetings, PHCs assessments, development of scorecards.
Recommendations: While we commend the state government for scoring 98 per cent in the implementation of the Primary Healthcare Under one roof policy, we, however, call on the state government to;Develop a sustainable strategic plan for the continuation of the three-year PHC-MOU signed between Kaduna State and other partners that supported the state to strengthen integrated PHC system.
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