Muhammad Pate, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, has disclosed that from 2023 so far, practically N50 billion has been disbursed on to Major Well being Facilities (PHCs) throughout Nigeria.
He revealed that the Primary Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) facilitated the funding, leading to over 37 million visits to PHCs within the first quarter of 2025 alone.
Pate made this know whereas sharing updates on the nation’s main healthcare sector on his X account on Sunday.
In line with Pate, the Primary Healthcare Provision Fund is designed to be financed from at the very least 1% of the Federal Authorities’s Consolidated Income Fund and different sources, together with donors’ contributions.
“It gives a Primary Minimal Package deal of Well being Providers geared toward growing the fiscal house for well being and strengthening our nationwide well being programs.
“I’m happy to tell you that from 2023 so far, practically N50 billion has been disbursed on to over 8,000 Major Well being Facilities throughout the nation by means of the Fund, with verifiably spectacular outcomes, and this has led to the qualitative modernization of well being infrastructure throughout all native authorities areas of Nigeria,” he added.
Beneath the management of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, Pate famous that the administration is on observe to surpass the 2024 file of two.4 million annual medical health insurance enrollments later this 12 months.
“This comes at a time when President Tinubu’s administration has disbursed over N20 billion to assist the rehabilitation and improve of 4,362 Major Well being Centres (PHCs) throughout the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) underneath the BHCPF over the previous two years, with equally indelible impression throughout the southern states,” he stated.
Pate additionally highlighted that over 37 million visits to main well being facilities throughout all native authorities areas had been recorded within the first quarter of 2025 alone, emphasizing a data-driven re-engineering of primary healthcare provision for Africa’s largest inhabitants.
“It’s my pleasure to share additional perception into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Sub-Nationwide Well being Assist Plan on this complete briefing from my desk,” he stated.
The Minister recalled that President Tinubu made it clear that he anticipated a unified and harmonious method to remodeling Nigeria’s healthcare system, with a eager concentrate on enhancements from main care as much as secondary, tertiary, and quaternary ranges.
As a former CEO of the Nationwide Major Well being Care Improvement Company, Pate emphasised that he knew the President’s mandate was effectively thought of.
“High quality healthcare provision on the grassroots of our nation stays a serious focus for all our efforts in direction of re-engineering healthcare supply in all 704 native governments and 36 states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he stated.
One of many main autos driving this transformation is the Primary Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF), established in 2014 underneath Part 11 of the Nationwide Well being Act.
Pate described the fund as an anchor for the sector-wide method, offering a further useful resource base for states and native governments to leverage in enhancing entry to main healthcare throughout Nigeria.
On the tertiary stage, Pate famous that over 300 tasks have been executed in northern Nigeria, serving greater than 4.5 million outpatients and 1.6 million inpatients.
He stated, “Beneath the empathetic and powerful management of the President, Nigerians can count on the full transformation of the nation’s main healthcare system, which is already manifesting tangible outcomes.”
Pate additionally recalled that in June 2024, President Tinubu signed a landmark govt order offering tariff waivers on imported uncooked supplies for pharmaceutical manufacturing, a daring transfer geared toward encouraging native drug and biotech manufacturing.
He urged Nigerians to maintain religion as the federal government works to ship on the President’s reform agenda throughout the sector, expressing confidence that President Bola Tinubu will succeed and that finally each Nigerian will profit because the President continues to do the onerous work he was elected to do, ending with a blessing for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
