The Federal Government has claimed that it has achieved all 41 performance targets set for the health sector under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, with 3,526 primary healthcare centres revitalised across the country.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Pate, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the third Nigeria Health Sector Joint Annual Review.
Pate said work was ongoing on another “900 primary healthcare centres, while 19,758 skilled birth attendants had been recruited across 22 states.”
He said the government had also trained 78,054 frontline health workers and increased health insurance coverage from about 16 million to nearly 24 million Nigerians.
“At the beginning of this administration, Mr President set performance commitments for the health sector. I am pleased to report that we have achieved all 41 commitments,” he said.
The minister disclosed that cumulative releases under the Basic Health Care Provision Fund had reached N422.3bn as
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