The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR has approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme. This programme will ensure that young Nigerian fellows are engaged in all the 774 local government areas of the country to monitor health performance in the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs).
TheMediaGood Newspaper can report that this move is part of the President’s determination to comprehensively upgrade existing primary healthcare centres and construct over 8,800 new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country to enhance accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms.
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 fellows will be recruited, renumerated, and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities nationwide.
President Tinubu, who is the African Union (AU) Champion for Human Resources in Healthcare, places faith in young Nigerians. He expects that their engagement in this critical nation-building task, which includes daily monitoring and tracking of health reforms in their locations, will usher in a new era of world-class health service provision to all Nigerians in every part of the country.
It is important to report that the fellowship programme will be domiciled in the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) coordination office in the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.