Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai yesterday unveiled a new primary healthcare law at a local and international stakeholders’s summit.
The ceremony was part of the second Kaduna Health Summit where the governor led a roundtable on how to improve primary healthcare in the state’s 225 wards.
Also, Health Commissioner Prof. Andrew Nok, said Kaduna State had approved N180 million counterpart funding for the Health sector to augment funding partners’ financial assistance.
The summit was attended by representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and similar organisations.
Addressing participants, El-Rufai said: “When we had the first summit on June 16 in this room, our young government was delighted by the turnout and your willingness to work with us. Health is one of the priority sectors for this government. I must thank you for sharing our goal to deliver for Kaduna State residents better health and longer life expectancy.
“During the first summit, we shared with you some of the dismal indices of our state in infant and maternal mortality, malaria treatment, measles vaccination and HIV/AIDS prevalence. We did that, not for purposes of pointless lamentation, but to underline the scale of the challenge, and our duty to deliver better healthcare outcomes for our people.”