Alhaji Saad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, on Tuesday tasked government at all levels on adequate construction and equipping of health facilities to help in the effective healthcare delivery.
The Sultan made the call while declaring open the first quarter review meeting of Northern Traditional Leaders Committee(NTLC) on Primary Health Care, which centered on an update on Kaduna State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that the major focus of the meeting was to receive update on Community Health Influencers, Promoters and Services(CHIPS) initiative launched by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018.
The CHIPS initiative is aimed at using community based women to improve maternal and child health care, part of which includes educating women on importance of visiting health facilities when the need arises in order to avert deaths from preventable diseases.
Abubakar, who decried the deplorable status of health care facilities in the country said, “I will like us to talk about the position of our healthcare facilities across the towns and villages.
“You can’t come around with such programme, CHIPS, advocating about going to clinics for antenatal and you don’t have the clinics. There are so many buildings across the villages in the name of clinics, but there’s no nurses, nothing.
“So, we will want to see states and Federal Government embark on construction and equipping of full healthcare facilities across the villages and towns where we have large population of our people,” he said.
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