By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKURU
CALABAR—CHIEF Medical Director of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, Dr. Thomas Agan, has said that primary and secondary healthcare service delivery in the country was not in existence.

Dr. Agan, in an interview in Calabar, said there was dearth of medical doctors whose responsibilities it should be to drive the primary and secondary healthcare service delivery across the nation.

He said because of lack of incentives for medical health workers in state government-owned health institutions, medical personnel prefer to work in Federal Government health institutions, which now make the teaching hospitals to provide the primary and secondary health care delivery instead of acting as a referral institution.

According to him, most states cannot boast of three qualified medical doctors in each of the local government areas, stressing that primary and secondary health care delivery would not be workable until there was collaboration between the states and teaching hospitals.