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March 5, 2020
The Minister of Health, OsagieEhanire says additional 10,000 Primary Health Centres, PHC will berehabilitated to boost healthcare delivery across the country.
The Minister announced this whileaddressing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the FederalExecutive Council, FEC presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
He said before now, less than 20 percent of the centres were working, maybe about 1,000 were working. As of now,4800 are functional.
The Minister, while reacting to aquestion on the identity of the Covid-19 index case in Nigeria, dismissedspeculations that the Federal Government is hiding the identity of the patient.
According to Ehanire, it ismedically unethical to reveal the identity of the Italian currently quarantinedin a medical facility in Łagos, adding that unlike the index case of Ebola,Patrick Sawyerr who was known, the Italian could not be exposed because hisprivacy must be respected.