Gov Sani Approves 15% of Kaduna Annual Budget to Health Sector

Governor Uba Sani has announced that 15 per cent of Kaduna State’s annual budget will be allocated to the provision of healthcare services to the people of the state.

He also announced plans to rehabilitate 200 primary health centres across the 23 Local Government Areas of the state as part of the government’s determination to enhance access to affordable and efficient healthcare services at the rural and urban areas.

Governor Sani made the disclosure when he hosted officials of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and other key stakeholders in the health sector at the Government House, Kaduna.

The governor explained that the upgrading of the primary health centres in addition to the existing ones is to increase accessibility, decrease travel time to health facilities as well as reduce overcrowding in densely populated centres.

While disclosing some of the measures put in place by his administration to strengthen health care delivery and checkmate disease outbreaks in Kaduna State, Governor Sani is optimistic that the state will achieve universal health coverage through massive enrolment of more residents into the state Contributory Health Insurance Scheme