No fewer than 988,652 poor and indigent Nigerians have been enrolled in the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF).
This is according to President Muhammadu Buhari in an address at the 3rd Ministerial Performance Review Retreat on Monday in Abuja.
He said following the passage of the National Health Act in 2014, his administration began the inclusion of the one per cent minimum portion of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cater for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), under which the poor and indigent had been enrolled.
Buhari further pointed out that a total of 7,373 primary health facilities had been accredited and capitated under the National Health Insurance Scheme pathway and were receiving Decentralized Facility Financing under the National Primary Health Care Development Agency – Basic Health Care Provision Fund gateway.
On Social Investment Programmes, the president said 9,990,862 pupils were being fed through the School Feeding Programme, which employs 128,531 cooks in local communities.
He lauded Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, noting that the country’s achievement has been commended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
According to him, as at September 2022, 51,713,575 eligible people had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, representing 46.3 per cent of the eligible population.
”Out of this number, 38,765,510 people have been fully vaccinated, and this represents 34.7% of the eligible population,” he said.
