Phase 1
Foundation to DPC
Site clearance, setting out, foundation trenching and footing, built up to the damp proof course.
Primary Healthcare Centre programme
The PHC programme.
Comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres across Nigeria, built to one standard design and delivered by Mathan since 2007.
Aerial view · ALGON Comprehensive PHC modelBackground
Programme background.
In 2007, Mathan was awarded the contract to construct and equip Comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres across Nigeria's 774 local government areas.
The initiative, conceived by Senator Athan Achonu, aims to transform healthcare delivery at the grassroots by bringing a fully built primary healthcare centre to every local government area.
Mathan's role
What Mathan is
responsible for.
Mathan holds the contract to construct and equip the centres,
and manages delivery across every site.
Subcontractors carry out the building work on assigned sites.
Mathan's site supervisors inspect work daily and report progress weekly.
Each phase is checked and approved by Mathan before the next begins.
A completion certificate and handover documentation close out every site.
Mathan Nigeria Limited
Contract holder
The contract
Construct
Equip
On every site
Inspect daily
Report weekly
Hand over
Programme at a glance
The programme in figures.
As at 21 October 2026
774
Local government areas in programme scope
584
Centres completed
190
Centres remaining
6
Geopolitical zones with remaining sites
How each centre is built
Four phases, foundation to finishing.
New sites start at phase 1. Partly built sites are assessed first and usually continue from roofing.
Phase 2
DPC to lintel
Blockwork raised to lintel level, pillars and lintels cast, door and window openings formed.
Phase 3
Roofing and ceiling
Roof trusses checked and fixed, roofing sheets installed and ceilings completed.
Phase 4
Finishing
Plastering and painting, doors and windows, electrical and plumbing fittings, tiling and landscaping.
Equipping the centres
Built, then equipped.
Mathan supplies and installs medical equipment at the primary healthcare centres and distributes 20KVA generators to the health centres.
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Facility concept
Three buildings on every compound.
Building
1 of 3
Built in
4 phases
Status
Completed