Dr Abdullahi Belel, Executive Chairman, Adamawa Primary Health Care Development Authority, has said that the state government has commenced upgrading 21 primary health facilities to centres of excellence.
Belel said in Yola on Saturday that the upgrade was part of government’s commitment to improve health care status in the state.
He said each local government area would have one centre of excellence, adding that of the 1,050 primary health care centres, 450 were being renovated by the state government.
He explained that the state government needed about eight billion naira annually to fix its health facilities.
Belel listed lack of regular payment of staff salary and low investment in primary health care sector as among the major problems affecting effective health service delivery in the state.
He said that out of 6,000 officials of the agency, only 2,000 were health care workers.
“Our major concern now is the way our staff salary has astronomically increased from N292 million to N400 million in a month,” he said.
He attributed the delay in payment of workers’ salaries to the increment in the wage bill.
