Nigeria Health Commissioners To Hold 2-Day Program On Primary Healthcare Financing – Ekiti Health Commissioner

By Wale Obeluwaji 

The Health Commissioners across the Country under the auspices of the Nigeria Health Commissioners’ Forum will be holding a 2-day program titled Primary Healthcare Financing Forum to discuss the role of States in Primary Health Care Financing in Nigeria.

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The event will be held on the 5th and 6th of October, 2022 in Abuja as a hybrid event with in-person and virtual participation. 

The Nigeria Health Commissioners’ Forum is Nigeria’s Community of practice and learning platform created by the 36 States’ Health Commissioners across Nigeria. This year, in collaboration with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, they will be hosting the first collaborative event which will focus on Primary Health Care financing, particularly the role subnational systems must play in the process. 

According to an invitation issued by the Ekiti State Commissioner for Health and Human Service and the Chairperson of the Forum, Dr Filani Oyebanji, he said “the Primary healthcare all over the world, requires adequate financing for better healthcare service delivery”.

The statement added that high performing health systems recognize the importance of having an effective Primary Health Care service as a key driver of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) adding that strengthening PHC strongly relies on the Primary Health Care (PHC) structures across Nigeria, to deliver individual based care and essential public health functions to all. 

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The statement further emphasized that though, Nigeria has made improvements in service delivery of primary health care, increasing financing and improving current financing arrangements that can catalyse our goal of achieving UHC by 2030. 

Dr. Filani enumerated the objectives that this maiden event is set to deliver to include taken stock of approaches to financing PHC in States; identify common challenges and policy responses; and to develop a shared understanding on the way forward for financing PHC in a comprehensive and sustainable manner.

According to Dr Filani, “the event looks promising, which shows the importance the ecosystem places on this type of activity. We are grateful to all our partners and everyone that has registered”. 

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The Primary Health Care financing forum will attract participants from the public sector, organized private sector, development partners, the academia, Civil Society Organizations, and the media. 

Interested persons are therefore urged to visit (www.nhcf.org.ng) in order for them to join the virtual event in Abuja from wherever they are located. 

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