FG Expands Basic Healthcare Coverage To 13,000 Facilities, Releases N40.7bn To States

The federal government has approved the expansion of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) to an additional 5,000 primary healthcare facilities, bringing the total number of facilities supported under the programme to about 13,000.




The government also announced a quarterly disbursement of N40.7 billion to states under the fund, alongside plans to recruit frontline health workers and extend health insurance coverage to 90,000 vulnerable Nigerians.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday while briefing journalists on the outcome of a meeting of the Ministerial Oversight Committee (MOC) on the imp...