The Dutse Alhaji residents’ hope of having Primary Health Care has been dashed as a hospital construction in their area has since remained uncompleted eight years after it was commenced. The project located at Zone 6 in Dutse Alhaji area of Bwari Area Council in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, was awarded in 2014. And, …
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The collapsed healthcare in Ebonyi state has gone out of hand forcing Ntezi-Aba community in Ebonyi North Local Government Area to convert a Goat Pen meant for rearing goats into a Primary Health Centre. On a visit to Ntezi-Aba community hospital, one sees a mud house with tattered leaking roofs and fallen windows meant for …
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Residents of the Angwa Ruwa-Boher in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State are battling a lack of healthcare facilities as a result of the dilapidated condition of a Primary Healthcare Centre they rely upon for their medical care. The Angwa Ruwa-Boher community hospital has continued to be this dilapidated even as the Nasarawa State …
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An estimated 4,000 populations in the Gbododnai community, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State have been denied access to healthcare delivery as the only Primary Healthcare Centre in their area has become deplorable. The Primary Healthcare Centre they rely upon has been deplorable and not functional for a long period of time, residents said. …
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Women and children bear the huge burden of rising healthcare inequality that is predominant among the urban poor and rural communities. Healthcare inequality happens when some citizens have more access to healthcare delivery than others. And, this happens as a result of income disparity between the rich and the poor. The fundamental reason healthcare inequality …
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At the moment, Nigeria is fast becoming one of the most dangerous societies to give birth as a mother. Of about 1,000 that give birth, 800 die, with the Northeast Nigeria being the worse hit recording over 1,500 women’s deaths in 100,000 of them that give birth, the WHO report says. As these figures continue …
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An estimated 2,335 populations in the Ikot Akata Ikpa Ibom community at Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa-Ibom have been denied access to healthcare delivery as only community Primary Health Care in their area has become deplorable. A visit to the hospital that was first exposed by Tracka, a public accountability organization shows a …
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Residents of the Kazurawa community in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State, in a clear example of a collapsed healthcare system, cannot access healthcare delivery as the only hospital in their area has since become despicable and collapsed. Worse still, the Kazurawa community is this deplorable even as the Kano state Primary Health Care …
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Residents of Maje in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger state are dying over deplorable nature of hospital in the community. This is even as an estimated 2000 population depend on the community hospital for their healthcare delivery. Tracka, a public accountability organization that first exposed the deplorable nature of the hospital says it has …
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Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), residents are lamenting over the unbearable urban poor burden, which they say exposes them to hazardous living conditions as a result of poor sanitation, lack of employment, and personal security. A situation the residents say is an unbearable urban poor crisis that is creating huge inequality and poverty that is …