 and also the World Health Organization in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency has rolled out plans to support the Cassana State Government. The World Health Organization in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Development has rolled out plans to support the Government in its plan to achieve a good health care delivery. This was coming as the State Chapter of the National Medical Association gave the State's Government an ultimate aim to address certain concerns of facing a warning strike. Also speaking, the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shahab, underscored the importance of investment in healthcare. What it means when you have a solid primary health care system is that there is a reduction in the burden to secondary and tertiary health facilities, so they are able to focus more on more complex medical cases. So by advocacy for primary healthcare, we're here to collaborate with the State bearing in mind that we do have an outbreak of diphtheria and we're working together with the State to try and control this outbreak, but also an outbreak of circulating variant polioviruses. We've seen great work that has been done in the State under the leadership of His Excellency, the Governor, but we also know that we can only eradicate these vaccine-preventable diseases when we work in synergy, when we work as one team with one plan. This is exactly what we're engendering today because we are very aware that when you actually give primary healthcare to the communities, what it does is that it strengthens the individual, it builds strong families, it makes communities thrive and then it leads to a prosperous nation. One of the major reasons why we're not achieving the indicators for primary healthcare is because of the lack of human resources at primary healthcare level. So our primary advocacy to state governors is that if you want to improve primary healthcare, you want to reduce battalard and child mortality, then you not only have to do an audit of the human resources at the primary healthcare level, you also have to look at how these human resources are distributed, understand the gaps and then see what are the needs in terms of hiring.