Pate Says Health Sector Meets Tinubu’s 41 Performance Targets, Maternal Deaths Drop 60%.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof.
Muhammad Ali Pate, has said the health sector has met all 41 performance commitments set by President Bola Tinubu at the beginning of the administration.
Pate disclosed this on Tuesday, at the 2026 Joint Annual Review of the Health Sector, held in Abuja, under the theme, “Together to Higher Ground: Make Reform Data Count.” The minister’s scorecard came just as the National Coordinator of the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) health reform initiative, Dr.
Muntaqa Umar Sadiq, said there had been positive developments in the country’s health indices, with maternal deaths declining by 60 per cent. In the same vein, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) said states had raised their combined health budgets from N1.97 trillion in 2023 to N3.3 trillion in 2026, in line with commitments under the Health Sector Compact. Pate, who highlighted achievements recorded in the last three years, said President Tinubu had placed health among the principal priorities of the Renewed Hope Agenda, with the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative and the Health Sector Strategic Blueprint giving the sector a clear purpose: to save lives, reduce physical and financial pain, and produce health for all Nigerians. He recalled that three years ago, financing was inadequate and unfairly distributed, governance was fragmented, partner support was unaligned, commodities were unreliable, and many frontline workers had gone years without refresher training.
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