The statement said the funds are part of the bank’s Saving One Million Lives (SOML) programme for result initiative.

It said SOML programme seeks to give incentives based on achievement of results (health outcomes) and helping to drive institutional processes needed to achieve results and to facilitate a change in the way health business is conducted by focusing on results and governance.

“The programme is financed through the $500m International Development Association (IDA) credit to the Federal Government over a period of four years, for distribution to states on the basis of performance.

“States are assessed based on the implementation of a number of maternal and child healthcare indicators, which determine what is earned,” the statement highlighted.

Mr Oyetola, in his response, said Osun State would use the money to rehabilitate 332 out of the over 900 Primary Health Centres (PHCs).

“This will be on the basis of one PHC per ward, so as to bring healthcare to the doorsteps of the people at the grassroots,” he said.

The governor, who is the chairman of the committee on healthcare, which he constituted immediately after his inauguration, said he took charge of the committee so as to ensure that the 332 PHCs go into full operation within the shortest possible time, adding that “a healthy state is a wealthy state.”

Mr Oyetola said he is also looking forward to the actualization of the planned upgrading of the Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesa to a Federal Medical Centre.

Source: Premiumtimes