The Federal Ministry of Health with collaboration of the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation and Palladium has inaugurated the Health Facility Registry of Nigeria, HFR to enhance the quality of healthcare services in the country.
The Minister of Health Isaac Adewole who inaugurates the system in Abuja said that facility was an electronic information system that would allow the general public to have access to up-to-date information on health facilities as contained in the Master Facility List.
He said that a master health facility list was a complete listing of all the health facilities in a country with information on the signature and service domain elements.
He said that the signature domain provides information on the health facility by location and unique identifier, while the service domain elements indicate the kind of services provided by the health facility.
Adewole said that the facility would permit each state and the Federal Capital Territory to carry out constant management of the list of health facilities within its jurisdiction.
