FG to Build 10,000 Health Care Facilities Across Nigeria

In a bid to ensure effective health care service delivery to Nigerians, the Federal Government has made known its plans to build 10,000 primary health facilities in the 774 local government areas across the country. The Health Minister, Professor Isaac Adewole, also revealed that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is targeting over 60 million indigent Nigerians for access to unhindered medical care by 2018. The Minister who was speaking at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTHIE), Ido Ekiti, while commissioning twelve projects initiated by the institution and Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), maintained that, “What is symbolic about today is that we are commissioning 12 projects through the partnership and Memorandum of understanding this hospital signed with Afe Babalola University. He thanked Aare Afe Babalola for his investment not only in education, but also in the hospital. On his part, Afe Babalola (SAN), while appealing to medical personnel to desist from embarking on industrial action, insisted that it was morally wrong for them to continue to receive salaries and allowances while on strike.