The Federal Government says 991 primary healthcare centres across the country have been restored to full operation, with a further 2,701 facilities now under renovation. The figures were released by Dr Muyi Aina, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, at the agency’s quarterly briefing in Abuja.
Dr Aina told reporters the agency is “leveraging technology”, introducing a live dashboard to monitor clinics in every ward. He added that 120,000 frontline health workers have been retrained, while new ambulances are boosting emergency response nationwide.
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Vaccination coverage, he said, has improved by 54 percent in the past year with 26 million children receiving routine jabs, and 101,000 youngsters in four states have been getting the new malaria vaccine. He added that maternal‑and‑neonatal mortality‑reduction scheme is now running in 172 local government areas across five states.
Dr Aina also announced a fresh polio campaign starting 3 May in northern states, part of a Lake Chad regional effort to immunise 83 million children and keep Nigeria polio‑free.
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