Tinubu to construct 8,800 new PHCs, approves national health fellows programme

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Tinubu to construct 8,800 new PHCs, approves national health fellows programme
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Young Nigerian fellows are to be engaged in all the 774 local government areas in the country.

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In his determination to comprehensively upgrade existing primary healthcare centres and construct over 8,800 new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country for accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms, President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme, with young Nigerian fellows to be engaged in all the 774 local government areas in the country.

The fellowship programme will be domiciled in the Sector Wide Approach coordination office under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The fellows will be recruited, remunerated, and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities across the nation.

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