Support to Primary Health Centres
On the 22nd October 2025, the Federal Government released ₦32.9 billion for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), which is the FG’s mechanism for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria.
The Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is established to provide basic minimum health services for all Nigerians, especially the poor and rural populations, through a sustainable funding mechanism.
Legal Basis: The BHCPF is established by Section 11 of the National Health Act (2014). It empowers the National Council on Health to prescribe standards, norms and national health policy to guide the implementation.
Core Objectives:
- Finance Basic Minimum Package of Health Services (BMPHS): provides free basic services to improve healthcare-seeking behaviours at the community level and protect the poor from large health-related expenses.
- Strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) service delivery: have at least one functional Primary Healthcare Centre, whether public or private, in every Electoral Ward in the country, and through oversight at the state level.
- Support public health emergencies.
- Promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
- Empowerment of states and local communities: the BHCPF provides an opportunity for communities to shape decisions on how resources are planned, allocated, and used through sufficient representation in the committee at the Ward level. The Ward Development Committee are in charge of planning and decision-making at the facilities, including approval of disbursement of funds, monitoring of implementation, creating awareness of the rights of citizens and setting up grievance mechanisms to hold stakeholders accountable to deliver high-quality services.
We dug deep into the BHCPF to show you exactly the structure, funding channels, requirements, and most importantly, what YOU can do right now to ensure accountability at your local health centre and how to ensure your local Primary Health Care centre benefits directly.
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