The Executive Director/CEO National Primary Health Care Agency (NPHCA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has disclosed that the federal government is set to revitalise primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in every ward across Nigeria.
Dr Shuaib, who made this known in Ibadan during an interview with newsmen, Monday, declared that government has renovated over 4,000 centres in the last four years.
According to the NPHCA CEO, health workers were made to embark on periodic training to be able to have capacity to deliver quality healthcare services to Nigerians across the country, saying, healthcare of Nigerians especially at the PHCs level has continued to be the priority of the President Buhari-led administration to ensure that Nigerians are well treated with dignity and compassion whenever they access health care.
“Healthcare of Nigerians is our priority, that is why we are working with stakeholders at the national level in making sure that Nigerians are well treated with dignity and compassion whenever they access these facilities, they are respected, and making sure they are giving medication and management that will make them recover from their illness,” he said.
Dr Shuaib added, “Federal Government has renovated over 4,000 PHCs in the last four years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. We will revitalise the PHCs. We will ensure health workers embark on periodic training so as to have capacity to deliver quality healthcare services to Nigerians.
“We are doing better than how it was few years ago; our ambition is to have at least one functional PHC per political ward across the country. No matter how big the money we spend into health sector, it is not enough to spend money into building large tertiary hospitals, we must also revitalise PHCs by recruiting well trained health workers, making sure the workers are well paid, ensuring security across the PHCs and putting in place infrastructure.”