Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday in Abuja restated the determination of the Tinubu administration to secure legal recognition, certification, and salary reliability for community health workers across Nigeria.
This was as he launched a continental acceleration plan aimed at deploying two million community health workers across Africa by 2030.
Shettima spoke at the Continental High-Level Forum on a Fit-for-Purpose Health Workforce, where he launched the Community Health Programme Continental Acceleration Plan 2026–2030.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha, revealed details of the engagement in a statement signed Thursday titled, ‘Guaranteed Legal Rights, Reliable Salaries for Community Health Workers In Sight, Says VP Shettima.’
The Vice President said Nigeria could not afford to take its community health workers for granted, warning that the distance between a household and a health worker could become the distance between survival and mourning.
“Our Community Health Programme
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