Umar Akilu Majeri
Human capital development has been a major focus of the Jigawa State government considering the social transformation Agenda of which universal access to quality health care services is a critical one.
Therefore because of that, the state established the State Contributory Health Management Agency in which will help significantly and potentially toward achieving the much talked universal health coverage in the state.
The governor Badaru Abubakar has said the above at the flag-off of the formal sector of the state contributory health care scheme.
Badaru said his administration has consistently been allocating an average of 15 percent of the state budget to the health sector since 2015 which is in line with the April 2001 Abuja declaration during which the government at the national and sub-national level agreed to allocate and spend at least 15 percent of their annual budget to the health sector.
He stated further that the role of the human resource for health service delivery cannot be overemphasized to address the human resource challenge a new school of nursing and midwifery was established at Hadejia and another one would soon commence in Babura equally.
While he said the existing college of Nursing and midwifery at Birnin Kudu and the school of health Technology Jahun have attained their full potential.
Governor Badaru explained that in the last four years ago sixty Jigawa Indigenes have been sent to study in China while adding that sixty more will go very soon as he said that these measures will ultimately mitigate the human resources in the health sector of the State.
He also stated that his government in the last four years has increased the funding for free maternal and child health care delivery services from N15 million to N75 million as well as a fivefold increase from N180 million to N900 million annually.
He explained further that these services cover pregnant women, children under the age of five, and accident victims, inmates, and boarding students.
In his speech, the secretary in charge of the agency Dr. Nura Ibrahim Salisu Kazaure said the agency’s offices are fully furnished.
