President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme in a bid to enhance accessibility and quality of healthcare services.
The presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement on Monday said the program will see young Nigerian fellows deployed to all 774 local government areas, tasked with monitoring and tracking the development and performance of primary healthcare centers.
He added that the initiative will encompass the construction of over 8,800 new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country for accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms.
“The fellowship programme will be domiciled in the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) coordination office under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The fellows will be recruited, renumerated, and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities across the nation.
“The well-trained fellows will serve as fiduciary agents to monitor and track Primary Healthcare Centre development and performance, which is to be assiduously measured against all financial inflows to the centres nationwide.”the statement read in parts.
Ngelale further added that as the African Union Champion for Human Resources in Healthcare, the President places faith in young Nigerians. He expects their engagement in this critical nation-building task, which includes daily monitoring and tracking of health reforms in their locations, to usher in a new era of world-class service provision to all Nigerians in every part of the country.
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