Unlocking healthcare value chain will contribute to job creation – Minister

Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate says unlocking the nation’s healthcare value chain will contribute to creating decent and quality jobs for the Nigerian youth towards delivering the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

He stated this when he met with the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mastercard Foundation, Ms. Reeta Roy on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

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“We are leveraging smart partnerships to strike reasonable balance in the size, composition and distribution of the health care workforce. This includes retraining frontline health workforce at the primary care level, particularly empowering female health workers at the frontlines who are more than 2/3 of the total workforce. Equally, we are determined to effect a managed migration policy as a means to address human resource challenges in a progressive way. This is in addition to the focus on scaling up healthcare infrastructure and equipment in our facilities for enhanced delivery.”

The Minister disclosed that they explored next steps in ongoing collaboration with the Foundation.

“We were elated when, during subsequent visit to HE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, Reeta shared the ambitious goal of the Mastercard Foundation to enable 10 million Nigerian young people to gain dignified employment over the next several years, of which health and social welfare sector will be a key pillar. Thank you, Reeta, and team, for your genuine interest to accelerate and deepen the important work of MasterCard Foundation in Nigeria.”