Abuja, Nigeria
Dr Muyi Aina, executive director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), says the federal government has revived 991 primary healthcare centres (PHCs) across the country.
Aina said this at the quarterly press briefing and the commencement of the World Vaccination Week, which provided an opportunity to assess the progress of the agency.
The NPHDC boss also said the government is focusing on an additional 2701 PHCS’s which were undergoing renovation.
The executive director, who highlighted NPHDA’s achievements in the past year, said certain milestones had been achieved.
He further said that the agency was leveraging technology heavily to digitise healthcare delivery in the country.
According to him, a life dashboard had been introduced to assess the primary healthcare centres in different wards across Nigeria.
He also said that 120,000 healthcare workers had been retrained and emergency services had been improved with the provision of ambulances across the country.
Speaking on maternal care, Dr Aina noted that the maternal and neonatal mortality reduction innovation initiative had commenced in 172 local government areas across five states to reduce the number of maternal deaths in the country.
He also disclosed that vaccination had improved by 54%, with seven states upscaled, while a total of 26 million children had been vaccinated so far.
He further stated that 101,158 children had been vaccinated so far against malaria in four states across the country.
Aina announced that the government has completed plans to start a new polio vaccination campaign would begin on May 3 across some northern states in line with the synchronised vaccination program launched by Lake Chad countries to vaccinate 83 million children against the disease.
