Lawal Dauda

Health section

Improve the quality of all general hospitals within six years through massive infrastructural development and provision of medical equipment and standard laboratories.

Providing free anti-natal care for women and children to help in reducing the mortality rate amongst infant babies and children.

Give particular emphasis on Primary Health Centres (PHCs) by collaborating with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in providing standard primary healthcare delivery to remote communities.

Encourage the private sector to provide healthcare centers in compliance with health regulatory standards.

Improve the welfare and enhance the well-being of all health workers in the State, which will attract an inflow of health personnel showing interest in working in the State.

Develop a robust and effective health insurance scheme to ensure citizens of Zamfara have access to good and affordable healthcare services.

Ensure better funding for primary and secondary healthcare systems.

Questions to ask Lawal Dauda

1. You plan to improve the quality of all general hospitals within six years; which hospitals are included, and what are the annual milestones and deliverables for each year of the six-year period?
2. What is the estimated total cost to upgrade all general hospitals (infrastructure, equipment, laboratories), and what are the specific funding sources you will use to finance it?
3. Which state agency will lead the hospital upgrade program, and how will procurement, installation, and maintenance of new equipment be managed to ensure sustained functionality?
4. What quantifiable standards will define “improve the quality” of general hospitals—such as bed capacity, theatre uptime, laboratory test menu and turnaround time, or emergency response times?
5. Does the pledge for free care cover antenatal visits only, or does it include delivery, postnatal care, and immunizations—and up to what age for children?
6. What is the projected annual budget for providing free maternal and child health services, and how will these services be financed and sustained over the term?
7. How will you ensure facilities have the staff, drugs, and supplies to deliver the promised free services without stockouts or informal fees?
8. What premium levels and subsidies are planned for the poor and informal workers, and what are the projected revenue sources for the insurance pool?
9. Which body will govern the state health insurance scheme, and how will enrollee funds be pooled, audited, and reported publicly?
10. What are your annual enrolment targets for the insurance scheme and the expected reduction in out-of-pocket spending by households?
11. When you say you will ensure better funding for primary and secondary healthcare, what budget share or per-capita spending targets are you committing to, and from which revenue sources?