Bauchi Health Sector Faces Human Resource, Capacity-Building Challenges – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified human resource constraints, inadequate capacity-building opportunities and poor conditions of some healthcare facilities as major challenges confronting the health sector in Bauchi State.
The organisation, however, said the Bauchi State government was aware of the gaps and was making efforts, in collaboration with development partners, to address them.
Speaking yesterday at the end of a two-day visit by a delegation from Global Affairs Canada to the state, Dr. David Audu, Health Specialist with UNICEF Nigeria’s Bauchi Field Office, said the team had the opportunity to witness some of the challenges facing healthcare delivery, ...