President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme, with young Nigerian fellows to be engaged in all the 774 local government areas of the country.
This is contained in a statement which said the approval was in Tinubu’s determination to upgrade existing primary healthcare centres and construct thousands of new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country.
It was issued by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.
“The fellows will be recruited, remunerated, and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities across the nation.
“The move is in line with his determination to comprehensively upgrade existing primary healthcare centres and construct over 8,800 new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country for accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms,” the statement read in part.
Mr Ngelale said that the well-trained fellows would be the agents to monitor and track Primary Healthcare Centre development and performance, which is to be measured against all financial inflows to the centres across the nation.
“The fellowship programme will be domiciled in the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) coordination office under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
The statement further revealed that Tinubu, who is the African Union Champion for Human Resources in Healthcare, places faith in young Nigerians, and values their engagement in this critical nation-building task.
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