FCT healthcare board, HP+ partner on poor communities

The FCT Primary Healthcare Development Board (FCT-PHDB) has partnered with Health Policy Plus (HP+), a USAID-funded project, on improving healthcare services in indigent communities. As part of the collaboration, HP+, yesterday, presented a work plan to the management of the board to support the latter’s access to the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), an […]

The FCT Primary Healthcare Development Board (FCT-PHDB) has partnered with Health Policy Plus (HP+), a USAID-funded project, on improving healthcare services in indigent communities.

As part of the collaboration, HP+, yesterday, presented a work plan to the management of the board to support the latter’s access to the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), an intervention aimed at increasing access to basic healthcare by poor Nigerians.

The work plan which is jointly developed by the two organisations, is targeted for implementation in 2019, and also aims at strengthening FCT health systems for the next round of the fund.

Executive Secretary of the FCT-PHDB, Dr. Iwot Ndaeyo, said the work plan provided opportunity to address identified gaps to bring about the desired improvement that would help the FCT deliver quality basic healthcare services to its communities.

The Team Leader of HP+, Peter Oshaji, who represented the project’s Country Director, Onoriode Ezire, said HP+ would support the board to achieve its mandate by working with stakeholders in providing healthcare services.

Zire said the organisation would provide capacity building in 2019 to strengthen health systems in the FCT and also provide a legal framework for the Primary Healthcare Bill that had already passed first reading at the National Assembly.

The FCT scored 33 per cent in the Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR) scorecard IV report produced by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on assessments that looked at key elements such as integration of all Primary Healthcare (PHC) services delivered under one authority, a single management body with decentralised authority, enabling legislation and regulation, among others.