By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
Executive Director of the National Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib has announced that allPrimary Health Care across the country remain open inspire of the lockdown order.
In a statement signed by Shuaib yesterday the lockdown should not affect routine services provided by the PHCs across the country.
According to the statement, the three tiers of govrnment have put in place measures for safe delivery of all PHCs.
Shuaib said, ‘ I therefore urge parents and caregivers to continue, as usual, to take their children to the PHCs closest to them for immunization, growth monitoring, ante natal care, child birth and all other PHC related service delivery. ”
All caregivers, health workers and Nigerians are advised to obey all government guidelines on social distancing, frequent hand washing with soap and water, self isolation, etc throughout the period of COVID-19 outbreak, he noted.
