• Requires N4.55bn to fill PHC vacancies
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The federal government has said it needs three years to recruit the 122,696 health workers needed to fill vacant positions in Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities across 26 states nationwide.
It also said it requires an estimated N4.55 billion over the period to fill the vacancies.
The Human Resource for Health and Project Management Lead at the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) Coordination Office, Zaiyanatu Umar, disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja during the 15th Expanded Ministerial Oversight Committee meeting on national healthcare implementation.
