President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of National Health Fellows Programme.
A State House statement issued by the Special Adviser Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelele, disclosed the establishment of the National Health Fellows is part of the President’s determination to comprehensively upgrade existing primary healthcare centres across the country.
He further explained in the statement that the federal government is to construct over 8,800 new primary healthcare centres across all local government areas in the country.
He said the establishment of the primary health care centres is to create accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms.
“President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme, with young Nigerian fellows to be engaged in all the 774 local government areas in the country”, the statement explained.
He said 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.
According to the Special Adviser in the statement, “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 to be recruited, he said will be renumerated and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision Fund-supported health facilities across the country.
“President Tinubu, who is the African Union Champion for Human Resources in Healthcare, places faith in young Nigerians, and expects that their engagement in this critical nation-building task, which also includes a daily monitoring and tracking of health reforms in their locations, will usher in a new era of world-class service provision to all Nigerians in every part of the country”, the statement concludes.