FCTA to employ 203 health workers

From Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja

Two hundred and three midwives and community health extension workers from the defunct midwives service scheme and SUREP programme are to be employed by the federal capital territory (FCT) Abuja, minister of state Ramatu Aliyu said on Thursday.

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Aliyu spoke on Thursday at the launch of 12 kilowatts power Volsus solar for health mini-grid for primary healthcare centres in Karu. She said that this was being done to boost primary healthcare services in the territory.

Dr Aliyu also maintained that though the state of FCT PHC infrastructure by 2018 was adjudged poor with the achievement of only 30 per cent of required minimum human resources for Primary Healthcare, the administration has articulated a three-year budgeted PHC Infrastructure Rehabilitation Plan involving over 100 of the 247 PHC facilities across the six Area Councils to change the narrative.