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August 8, 2019
The Federal Governmenttwo years ago promised to revitalise ten thousand primary healthcare centresacross the country, many states said they are still awaiting the centralgovernment’s intervention.
The Federal Governmenthad, in 2017, begun the National Primary Healthcare Revitalisation Initiativewith the aim of resuscitating over ten thousand health centres across thecountry.
During the inaugurationof the Model Primary Health Care Centre, Kuchigoro in Abuja, former Minister ofHealth Isaac Adewole had said the target of the scheme was to have at least, afunctional health care centre in each ward in the country.
He added that thescheme would be executed through the National Primary Health Care DevelopmentAgency.
But stakeholders indifferent states, including the Nigerian Medical Association branches andchapters of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives toldnewsmen that they had yet to see the impact of the Federal Government’sprogramme.