President Tinubu has outperformed other Nigerian presidents in health sector — Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate

Muhammad Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, says President Bola Tinubu is transforming the country’s health sector for better quality service delivery.

Mr Pate said this in Bauchi on Friday, during the groundbreaking ceremony of 10 Medserve’s oncology and diagnostic centres at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital.

“Mr President is very clear; he wants to transform this country. He wants to change the direction of this country, and we are fortunate that he picked health as one of those areas. In just one year, he has done what has not been done in the history of this country in the health sector,” said Mr Pate.

According to him, the president is investing so much in the health sector to ensure every Nigerian has access to quality healthcare service delivery nationwide.
“He has launched many initiatives and building on what Medserve has done. We are seeing 10 major infrastructural projects with the groundbreaking that is happening. In 12 months, we will start opening them all across Nigeria. There are 6,000 centres that Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority(NSIA) is doing, and I think the money is available, and those too would be completed within 12 to 18 months; they will be opened,” he said.

He also said Mr Tinubu had undertaken the retraining of 120,000 frontline health workers, adding that 10,000 of them had been retrained across the country, including in Bauchi.