The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has announced that N45bn has been disbursed directly to Primary Healthcare Centres across the country through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund.
Pate made this statement on Wednesday in Abuja at the ongoing three-day Nigeria Health Sector-Wide Joint Annual Review, themed “It’s for all of us: Accelerating our health sector reforms together.”
He said, “The Basic Health Care Provision Fund 2.0 reform uses equity considerations in distributing financial and human resources to over 8,000 primary healthcare centres through direct facilities. N45bn has already been disbursed directly to the states to serve our population.”
“We have mobilised more than N3bn in complementary funding over the past three years, including N2.1bn that has been confirmed over time, which will complement the Federal Government’s efforts. In the last year, several facilities have already been revitalised, and 2,600 are currently in the late stages of being upgraded through the states. Additionally, two thousand more facilities will be revitalised as part of this effort.”
