The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. YD Ahmed, has said the Scheme would continue to post majority of the corps members, especially corps medical personnel, to rural areas for the purpose of improving the wellbeing of indigent Nigerians.
He said this Thursday while playing host to the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Muyi Aina, at NYSC National Directorate Headquarters, Maitama, Abuja.
Justifying the Scheme’s posting policy, which is tilted towards deploying more corps members to rural communities, Gen. Ahmed said the country’s rural areas needed corps members’ services more than the urban centres.
In a press release by the acting director of information and public relations of the scheme, Caroline Embu said, the DG assured his guest that the NYSC would continue to support NPHCDA with the needed manpower for the purpose of dispensing medical services in rural areas.
Gen. Ahmed directed the Corps Welfare and Health Services Department to work with officials from NPHCDA to review and revive the now dormant partnership between the two agencies.
In his remarks, the NPHCDA boss, Aina, commended the NYSC for staffing the health centres in rural areas with Corps Medical personnel, whose contributions had recorded great impacts in the nation’s health sector.