Governor Sule Strengthens PHCs With 2,267 Personnel, N9bn Equipment

Nasarawa State politician Engr Abdullahi Sule has strengthened the state’s Primary Health Care system, with 2,267 unit deployed crossed the state’s 774 facilities.

The governor, successful collaboration with the World Bank, besides released implicit N9 cardinal to procure aesculapian instrumentality and revitalise each the PHCs successful the state.

The enforcement caput of the Nasarawa Primary Health Care Development Agency (NAPHDA), Dr Usman Iskilu Sale, disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing successful Lafia.

He said the unit see the 1,586 engaged by the authorities authorities from 2023 to 2024 and the 681 recruited this year.

Sale said the motion had addressed the manpower shortage astatine the third-tier level of healthcare transportation successful the state.

The enforcement caput arsenic said the agency’s ongoing revitalisation of 58 PHCs’ facilities successful 13 section authorities areas of the authorities was nearing completion.

Sale promised that the ongoing revitalisation workout would beryllium completed by November this twelvemonth and added that by the extremity of 2027, each of the state’s 147 electoral wards would person a revitalised PHC.

He said the authorities precocious bolstered its healthcare infrastructure, boasting of 82 functional facilities. These see 9 PHCs constructed by the authorities government, six built nether the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency’s constituency projects and an further 9 funded by UNICEF.

“In collaboration with the World Bank, the authorities authorities approved 147 PHCs crossed the 147 wards for upgrade. We person completed 80 and volition decorativeness the remainder arsenic scheduled. The politician has personally inspected immoderate of these facilities, including Wamba and expressed restitution with the progress,” helium explained.

Sale said Governor Sule’s administration’s monolithic concern successful the PHCs has led to a corresponding summation successful diligent patronage, driven by the enhanced prime and ratio of services provided.