Benue State: Dilapidated PHCs Hinder Residents’ Access to Quality Healthcare
The 2024 budgetary provision for the health sector in the state has been jacked up to 15%, Despite being the…
Cross River Water Crisis: The Struggle for Clean Water and Sanitation
As bad as the water situation in Agbara and Ekureku is, it has yet to get the attention of the…
Osun PHCs: Dilapidated Facilities & Supply Shortages Hinder Care
A first-time patient at the Comprehensive Primary Health Centre, Iwara in Atakumosa East Local Government Area of Osun State would…
Sokoto Healthcare Crisis: Patients Forced to Use Mats as Beds in Deplorable PHCs
From infrastructural deficit, shortage of staff to ill-equipment, the primary healthcare system in Nigeria continues to remain in a sorry…
Taraba’s Healthcare Crisis: How Conflicts Disrupt Primary Care
Josephine Galadima had long dreamed of being a mother, so, when she conceived her first pregnancy in 2020, her joy…
Lack of Healthcare Facilities and Unskilled Workers Drive Self-Medication in Sokoto, Nigeria
Thirty-year-old Raliya Mousa had experienced high temperatures and excessive vomiting over the night and lost some energy. Her husband, Adamu Mousa,…
Rising Food Prices Fuel Child Malnutrition in Abuja’s Galadimawa Community
Baby Annabel, 15 months old, from Pergasson Galadimawa, a rural community in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, weighs about 5.5kg and…
Sokoto Struggles: Insecurity Limits Healthcare Access for Caregivers and Residents
Ten years ago, Labsani Health Post, a community healthcare facility in Labsani, Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State was…
Overcoming Delivery Challenges: Ensuring Medicine Reaches Patients in Anambra PHCs
The news of free antenatal and delivery services initiative launched by Anambra state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR in…