{
  "id": 17119257,
  "title": "Shettima pledges legal backing, steady salaries for community health workers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/shettima-pledges-legal-backing-steady-salaries-for-community-health-17119257",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T20:48:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
    "slug": "punch",
    "url": "https://punchng.com/shettima-pledges-legal-backing-steady-salaries-for-community-health-workers/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Vice President Kashim Shettima has pledged legal backing and steady salaries for community health workers in Nigeria, as part of the Tinubu administration's commitment to securing their recognition and reliable income. Speaking at the Continental High-Level Forum on a Fit-for-Purpose Health Workforce, Shettima launched the Community Health Programme Continental Acceleration Plan 2026–2030, which aims to deploy two million community health workers across Africa by 2030. He emphasized the importance of addressing the distance between households and health workers, warning that survival could depend on the proximity to a health worker, and stressed that the government's duty is to shorten that distance for all Africans.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}