The minimum standard of a primary health care centre in Nigeria as laid out by the Federal Government includes good infrastructure
However, it is a well-known fact that primary healthcare centres in the country are far off this mark because of poor funding of the system.
The one and a half-hour webinar featured Premium Times Health Editor, Ayodamola Owoseye, as host. Sitting on the panel were AB Garba from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency ; Stanley Ukpai, the Senior Technical Officer at Development Research and Project Centre PACFAH@Scale Project; and Terkaa Bitto, a Senior Registrar Epidemiology and Community Health, Public Health, Benue State University Teaching Hospital.
PACFAH@Scale also assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on use of PHCs. Interestingly, they discovered that PHCs that hitherto received high volume of patronage saw lesser rates in all the states above. This observation is noteworthy because PHCs are critical to heightening Covid-19 responses in the country. Moreover, evidence suggests that proper utilisation of PHCs in the pandemic is essential in disease control.
Mr Garba from NPHCDA when asked if the funding from this zonal intervention budget has been able to translate into quality health, commented that “it can not be seen, because it is not understood.” He explained further: “PHCs are poorly understood and because it is poorly understood it is, therefore, poorly prioritised and this poor prioritisation has its consequence of poor funding.
poor engagement of state, local government and communities to determine the availability of human resources and funding to manage the facilities.
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