The federal Government has restated it’s commitment to the revitalisation of primary health care services in the country, even as it admitted that the journey towards desirable health system and outcomes is still long.
The Minister of Health,Osagie Ehanire restated the commitment while Speaking at the 2022 Primary Health Care Summit, in Abuja, said every ward in the country needs a primary health care centre.
He noted that,”The primary health care level has been neglected, with consequent negative impact on human capital development”, but we also have opportunities to build back better, with the goodwill and funds that have flowed into the system since then.”
“It is in that light that we wish to rebuild our system by correcting the imbalance among the levels of care, beginning with this PHC summit”,the minister added.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, speaking at the event with the theme:“Re-imagining Primary Health Care in Nigeria”, said that Nigeria has a four point PHC agenda to implement.
“The four-point agenda,he said,”is about implementing strategies that work and also thinking about those strategies that will drive more service delivery and revilitalisation of our primary health care sectors in Nigeria.”
” Everybody here today has a part to play in changing the current state of our primary health cares. Now is the time for us to talk and deliver solutions that will radically transform the PHCs in Nigeria,” Shuaib added.
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