Kwara State Government has awarded contracts worth 5 Billion Naira for facility upgrades across 70 Primary Health Care facilities in the three Senatorial Districts in the state to promote them to Level 2 PHCs.
Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KWHCDA), Professor Nusirat Elelu, stated this during the contract signing event held at the Agency.
Professor Elelu revealed that the intervention will include infrastructural upgrade, solarisation, provision of staff quarters, potable water supply and supply of ultra-modern hospital equipment across all benefitting Primary Health Care facilities.
According to her, the intervention is coming with the support of the World Bank supported Immunisation Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Progress and Transforming Services (IMPACT) project.
She said the projects would make Primary Health Care facilities better positioned to provide quality and improved Primary Health Care services across the State.
The Executive Secretary pointed out that the overall objective is to make all the PHC facilities ‘fit for purpose’ since the PHC system is the first contact with the national health system.
Professor Elelu implored all the successful bidders to ensure that they deliver quality job to justify the trust reposed in them and cautioned that any Contractor that is found wanting would have his contract terminated immediately.
She noted that the contracts would be given very close supervision to ensure judicious use of the investment made in the project as this is part of the efforts of the Kwara State Government to revitalise the PHC system in the state.
The Executive Secretary recalled that 53 PHCs had earlier been renovated by the state government, while 9 PHCs are presently under renovation, stating that more facilities will still be renovated by the Kwara State Government in the near future.
