Kwara State Government has emerged as the ‘Best Performing State in North Central for the 2023/2024 Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge’ for the second year in a row. This achievement underscores the efforts of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and his team to strengthen basic healthcare delivery in the state ¹.
The award comes with a $500,000 reward, which will be spent on facilities in line with the UNICEF/Nigeria Governors’ Forum specifications. The Leadership Challenge is a peer review exercise aimed at improving healthcare delivery and outcomes for the people.
Kwara State was represented at the award ceremony by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Ahmed el-Imam, and the Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Nusirat Elelu. The event was attended by top government officials, including Vice President Kashim Shetimma (represented) and the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammed Ali Pate.
The Challenge assesses performance across key pillars, including Governance, Financing, Quality Service Delivery, Use of Evidence, Sustainability, and Outcomes. Kwara State has consistently invested in the basic healthcare sector, bridging infrastructural and human resource gaps, and upscaling services for the benefit of its people .
The state has recently approved another round of infrastructural upgrades for many Primary Health Care (PHC) centers and hired hundreds of new health workers to address personnel shortages.
