Universal Health Coverage: Again, Kwara Emerges As Best Performing State In North Central
Kwara State has again, emerged as the ‘Best Performing State in North Central in the 2023/2024 Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge’.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day is celebrated annually on December 12 and this year’s UHC Day had as its theme ‘Health: It’s on the government’.
‘Kwara had last year won the same award, in what underscored the efforts of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and his team to strengthen basic healthcare delivery to the people in the state.
The award, again, comes with $500,000 reward to be spent on facilities in line with the UNICEF/Nigeria Governors’ Forum specifications.
The Leadership Challenge is a peer review exercise to encourage subnational governments to do more to improve healthcare delivery and better outcomes for the people’ Opeyemi Alade, who is the Press Secretary of Kwara SPHCDA, noted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Friday.
The statement added that the state government was represented at the awards ceremony by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Ahmed el-Imam and Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care Development Agency Dr. Nusirat Elelu.
Held at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, the event was attended by representative of Vice President Kashim Shetimma; state governors led by the NGF Chairman, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq; Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammed Ali Pate and other top government officials.
‘Using a rigorous, independently developed performance monitoring framework– endorsed by all states — the Challenge assesses performance across key pillars: Governance, Financing, Quality Service Delivery, Use of Evidence, Sustainability, and Outcomes.
Kwara State has consistently invested in the basic health care sector while promising to continue to bridge infrastructural and human resource gaps and upscale services for the good of the people.
The state recently approved another round of infrastructural upgrades for many PHCs while also hiring hundreds of new health workers to bridge personnel shortage’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
