The Executive director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Muyi Aina with his team paid a coutesy call to governor, Peter Mbah. He commended the governor for his effort in repositioning the health sector, describing him as the first governor to implement some of the policies of the federal government in the health sector.
Dr. Aina made the commendation on Friday with the aim to establish more partnership with the state government in the area of primary healthcare development.
The Executive Director commended he governor for his move to recruit 450 healthcare workers in the state, he also stated that Dr Mbah is the only governor in Nigeria that is very prompt in releasing the counterpart fund promptly .
Dr. Aina said the state will fully benefit from the ongoing revitalisation of the Primary Healthcare Centres across the country by the federal government.
Dr. Aina, who noted that they have completed the assessment of 253 facilities in Enugu state, said the sum of 254 Million Naira has been mapped out as part of the basic care provision fund to support the state government to revamp the healthcare facilities in the state.
He said more PHC facilities in Enugu will benefit from the agency’s increased allocation called Direct Facility Financing, as well as retraining of 3,063 health workers from Enugu State.
He requested for an increase in the budget of PHC in Enugu, and also urged the state government to think of counterpart state funding for basic health care provision fund .
While responding, the Governor expressed. the state government’s preparedness to sustain the partnership with the federal agency, the said his administration is planning to build more type two primary healthcare centres across the state, apart from the 260 earlier awarded by the present administration.
Commending the federal government for its interventions in the primary healthcare space in the state, Dr Mbah said his administration has put modalities in place to ensure universal health coverage.
The governor who revealed his administration’s desire to institutionalise the primary healthcare, said the state government can no longer condone the incidence of mother and child mortality as well as child killer diseases.
