Governor Sule Strengthens PHCs With 2,267 Personnel, N9bn Equipment

Nasarawa State governor Engr Abdullahi Sule has strengthened the state’s Primary Health Care system, with 2,267 personnel deployed across the state’s 774 facilities.

The governor, in collaboration with the World Bank, also released over N9 billion to procure medical equipment and revitalise all the PHCs in the state.

The executive secretary of the Nasarawa Primary Health Care Development Agency (NAPHDA), Dr Usman Iskilu Sale, disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing in Lafia.

He said the personnel include the 1,586 engaged by the state government from 2023 to 2024 and the 681 recruited this year.

Sale said the gesture had addressed the manpower shortage at the third-tier level of healthcare delivery in the state.

The executive secretary equally said the agency’s ongoing revitalisation of 58 PHCs’ facilities in 13 local government areas of the state was nearing completion.

Sale promised that the ongoing revitalisation exercise would be completed by November this year and added that by the end of 2027, every of the state’s 147 electoral wards would have a revitalised PHC.

He said the state recently bolstered its healthcare infrastructure, boasting of 82 functional facilities. These include nine PHCs constructed by the state government, six built under the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency’s constituency projects and an additional nine funded by UNICEF.

“In collaboration with the World Bank, the state government approved 147 PHCs across the 147 wards for upgrade. We have completed 80 and will finish the rest as scheduled. The governor has personally inspected some of these facilities, including Wamba and expressed satisfaction with the progress,” he explained.

Sale said Governor Sule’s administration’s massive investment in the PHCs has led to a corresponding increase in patient patronage, driven by the enhanced quality and efficiency of services provided.