Primary Health Care: Zamfara ranked best-performing North West State

Zamfara State has emerged as the best-performing state in the North West Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge.

Zamfara was announced the winner of the PHC Leadership Challenge during an award night held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Friday.

A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, disclosed that in 2022, the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) launched the Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge, pledging to build a health system that delivers quality care regardless of geography or circumstance.

The statement noted that the PHC Leadership Challenge Fund intends to promote sustainable healthcare financing and motivates Nigeria’s 36 states to compete in enhancing their primary healthcare services.

The statement read in parts: “Zamfara state has won 500,000 USD as the best performing state in the North West zone in the Primary Healthcare Leadership Challenge.

“The award presented to Governor Dauda Lawal is a joint project of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Dangote Foundation, and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA).

“This clearly demonstrates that Governor Lawal’s declaration of a state of emergency in the Zamfara health sector is producing the intended positive outcomes.

“Zamfara and other leading states from North East, North Central, South East, South South, and South West shared a total of $6.1 million through the third edition of the Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge Awards.”

The high-level event was chaired by the Vice President of Nigeria, Senator Kashim Shettima.

Vice President Kashim Shettima, who was represented at the occasion by the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, congratulated Gombe and other winning states and commended governors across the federation for their support, leadership and commitment, which have attracted significant successes in the implementation of health programmes nationwide.

He also highlighted the strong political will of the present administration to reposition the health sector, noting that the Federal Government plans to increase budgetary allocation to health as part of broader reforms under President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

The VP emphasized that increased and sustained investment in health is critical, given its central role in national development, while also stressing the need to address persistent challenges of access to quality and affordable healthcare for many Nigerians.

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