The Federal Government inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee (IMSC) for the Nigeria Power-for-Health Initiative (NPHI), a major step towards ending chronic power shortages in the country’s healthcare facilities.
The committee, chaired by the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, and co-chaired by the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, will oversee the coordinated implementation of sustainable electrification projects across federal, state, and primary healthcare centres nationwide.
The NPHI is a government-led but private-sector-driven programme designed to consolidate all ongoing and future electrification interventions in the health sector, ensuring reliable and sustainable power supply to hospitals and clinics.
Speaking at the inauguration, the Minister of State for Health described the initiative as critical to improving healthcare delivery, noting that many health facilities currently rely on unreliable generators or have no power at all, which hampers service delivery, especially in emergency and critical care units.
