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The Federal Government on Thursday said it has put on hold its plans to build 10,000 primary health care centres across all Senatorial Zones in the country. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole made the revelation during a meeting with UN-Secretary-General and Executive-Director, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin in Abuja. According to him, the plan to put the project on hold was on the advice of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who felt the state would not be able to meet up with their contributions. Adewole, however, assured Nigerians that the government would bring together various departments in the ministry for effective performance. He further said the ministry under his leadership is still committed in promoting family planning programmes, as it seeks ways to help mothers plan and live their lives meaningfully. He said of the PHC’s: Truly, we came up with the agenda of revitalizing one PHC per political ward, that would lead us to ensuring 1000 PHCs are in place. But, then, there is a problem. Government set up an inter-ministerial committee. At our first meeting, it was obvious, the Minister of Finance said ‘wait a minute, when you take this up, the local government and states will abandon its responsibility. And, when they abandon it for you, you are in trouble. ‘About 40 percent of the resources go into personnel cost. So, if you want to bear the responsibility of the resources, you want to bear responsibility for commodities, then, what exactly will the states be doing?. So, we are trying to repackage the concept. We are taking on one hundred and ten for pilot. We are going through the backdoor, using the Save-One-Million-Lives, which is actually $500 million facility from the World Bank. We’ve given out to the states as grant, and what we’ve done is to advance them and advance payment at $1.5million. Use this, and then, in a year’s time, we would re-evaluate and match you with you. In other words, we compared, say Lagos State in 2015 with Lagos State in 2016. We then advance them with rewards based on improvements. And, I’ve been talking to many of the state governors, saying use this to strengthen your primary health care system. I think many of them are listening. If they do not invest, there will be nothing for them next year.
Source: TV360, HWN Africa.
: 2016-10-01 05:22:06 | : 1655
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