Six non-governmental organisations have Bauchi State government to prioritise release of funds in the budget line to primary health care facilities to achieve universal health coverage, particularly in the rural communities to enable them address decay infrastructures.
The NGOs under the aegis of Health System Strengthening Cluster in Bauchi called for Integrated Supportive Supervision (ISS) to improve quality health care service in the state.
The Executive Director of the Better Life Restoration Initiative, Mr. Nkem Ogbonna, while interacting with some select journalists in Bauchi, lamented the decay in the rural health care facilities.
He said that some facilities are being captured under major PHC under one facility per ward while others were left in deplorable state.
Ogbonna said that many of the small PHCs do not have the required number of skilled workers and necessary equipment to deliver.
“We are calling on the government to release the fund for the project as it stated in the budget line to carry out this integrated supportive supervision. We are going to carry out a robust data collection exercise where we will document the inventory of every facility. This will help the government to what is needed in a particular area and promptly respond,” he said.
Ogbonna said that project is being jointly executed in Bauchi with; Life Transformation for Africa Initiative (LIFT4AFRICA), Council for Affirmative Action (COFA), Women with Disability integrity & Development Initiative (WDIDI), Bauchi State Network of Civil Societies (BASNEC), She-Alert Care Foundation (SHE-ALERT) and Better Life Restoration Initiative (BERI) serving as the anchor organisation.
He said that the Cluster is implementing a project titled ‘SCALE project’, a USAID-funded 5-year project (Oct. 2020-Oct. 2025), implemented by Palladium in collaboration with Nigeria Resource Partners (RPs).
