Prof Muhammad Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare disclosed, on Friday, that the enrolment quota in medical, nursing, and other health professional schools has been raised from 28,000 to 64,000 per annum.
This was revealed at the sectoral ministerial press briefing to mark the first anniversary of President Bola Tinubu in office in Abuja.
“We have doubled the intake, the enrollment, the quotas of medical schools, nursing schools, and other health professionals’ schools from an enrollment target of 28,000 a year to 64,000 now.
“That is just the first step, the education sector will have to play its role. The states will have to play in to improve the infrastructure, the training, and the tools to produce more healthcare workforce because we need to produce more healthcare workforce given that we’re losing some so that we can serve the population of this country.”
He also pointed out that the Federal Government has released the initial amount of ₦25bn from the Basic Health Care Provision Fund via the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the National Health Insurance Authority.
“We put a condition that states that will access those have to comply with the fiduciary guidelines that have been provided, responding to lapses that have been observed over here so that the resources go to Nigerians.
“Twenty-three states have received those funds, and I believe that the rest of the states are just about to complete and receive their financing to channel through the PHCs.”
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