Kwara State Government Awards Five Billion Contract to Primary Health Care Centres
Kwara State Government has earmarked 5 billion naira for facilities upgrade across 70 Primary Health Care facilities in the three senatorial districts in the state.
The Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KWHCDA), Professor Nusirat Elelu, stated this during the contracts signing held at the Agency’s headquarters in Ilorin.
She said that the intervention will include infrastructural upgrade, solarisation, provision of staff quarters, potable water supply and supply of ultra-modern hospital equipment across all benefitting Primary Health Care facilities.
Professor Elelu explained that the intervention is coming with the support of the World Bank supported Immunisation Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Progress and Transforming Services (IMPACT) project.
She noted that the initiative will make Primary Health Care facilities better positioned to provide quality and improved Primary Health Care services across the state.
The commissioner said the overall objective is to make all the PHC facilities ‘fit for purpose’ since the PHC system is the first contact with the national health system.
For his part the IMPACT Programme Manager, Dr. Michael Oguntoye, said the contract is to be delivered within 3 months and the State will not tolerate undue delay in the implementation of the project.
He said that the PHCs upgrade is one out of the several interventions the state is benefitting from the IMPACT project, which is aimed at reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality.
