Only 10% of Primary Healthcare Centres in Nigeria Functional, Mamora Reveals

The Minister of Science and
Technology, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said only 10 percent of 30,000 primary healthcare centres (PHCs) across the states of the federation are functional and operational.
Mamora, who is also a former Minister of State for Health, admit- ted that a lot of professionals were “no longer satisfied with socio- economic and political situations in the country, hence forcing them to emigrate massively in search of golden fleeces.”
He gave these figures at a session with journalists in Lagos
recently, revealing that there were 30,000 primary healthcare centres across all the states of the federation.
With this figure, however, the minister further revealed that less than 10 per cent of the PHCs “are functional and operational due to multiple factors including dilapidated buildings and acute deficit of medical equipment.”
“When I was the Minister of State for Health, we could establish 30,000 primary healthcare centres through the last audit that we had across the federation. But less than 10 per cent of the primary healthcare centres are functional,