President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Fellows Programme (NHFP) for young Nigerian fellows to be engaged in all the 774 local government areas in the country.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement on X, said the President approved the establishment of the NHFP program on Monday.
The President made this call as it is part of his 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 for accessible and qualitative healthcare delivery with the provision of new social accountability mechanisms.
It is noted that 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 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, remunerated, and equipped with appropriate tools to track the performance of Basic Health Care Provision and Fund-supported health facilities nationwide.
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.
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The Nation-building tasks of the NHFP includes daily monitoring and tracking of health reforms in their locations, that will usher in a new era of world-class service provision to all Nigerians in every part of the country.
