The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says major healthcare visits have risen to 45 million quarterly, whereas 773,000 pregnant women have been linked to care.
Muyi Aina, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of NPHCDA, disclosed this in the course of the company’s quarterly media briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
Mr Aina mentioned the rise adopted ongoing reforms aimed toward enhancing entry to trusted, high quality major healthcare companies nationwide.
He added that the linking of pregnant women to care was a part of efforts to scale back maternal and new child deaths.
“When we started this journey, the quarterly attendance in terms of service contacts in the facilities was about 33 million or 34 million a quarter. Right now, it undulates between 43 million and 45 million,” he mentioned.
He mentioned service contacts peaked at 46 million in 2025, noting that numbers continued to rise throughout completely different healthcare service areas.
“I can tell you that the numbers continue to go up, and in fact, that is true, whether you’re looking at Ante-Natal Care (ANC) attendance, at immunisation, or at all of the other service lines,” he mentioned.
According to him, the rising utilisation exhibits that Nigerians are responding positively to authorities efforts to strengthen PHC supply.
Mr Aina mentioned the company was additionally implementing focused interventions to deal with main causes of sickness and deaths, notably maternal and new child mortality.
He recognized the Maternal and Newborn Mortality (*45*) Initiative (MAMII) as one of many programmes designed to enhance outcomes for pregnant women and newborns.
“We decided to create an end-to-end framework to support pregnant women through pregnancy, delivery, and immediate postnatal care for the mother and for the baby,” he mentioned.
The NPHCDA boss mentioned MAMII connects pregnant women with caseworkers, ensures needed investigations are performed, and links high-risk pregnancies to acceptable care amenities.
He disclosed that the variety of pregnant women who had been linked to PHC centres was tracked beneath the programme inside 172 native authorities areas in 33 states.
“No fewer than 773,000 women, over 200,000 deliveries attended by skilled birth attendants between January and August of 2026 alone,” he mentioned.
He added that the determine represented a 17 per cent enhance in contrast with the identical interval in 2025, describing it as “significant progress”.
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“Other interventions, including family planning, maternal health services and availability of essential commodities, are also being strengthened,” he mentioned.
“We are equally collaborating with the National Emergency Medical Service and Ambulance System to ensure timely emergency transportation for pregnant women who need urgent care.”
He added that the company was additionally strengthening interventions in household planning, maternal well being companies and entry to important commodities.
On the National Committee Food Bank Programme, Mr Aina famous that as of the final depend, “we have 23 food banks, one per local government and have delivered 9,500 food packages to 2,488 beneficiaries.”
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