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Nigeria’s healthcare inequality women, children worst hit

Nigeria’s healthcare inequality women, children worst hit

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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Estimated 2,335 Akwa Ibom residents deny healthcare, as PHC becomes deplorable

Estimated 2,335 Akwa Ibom residents denied healthcare, as PHC becomes deplorable

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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Despicable community hospital after N3.021 billion Kano PHC budget approval

Despicable community hospital after N3.021 billion Kano PHC budget approval

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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Despicable Niger state community hospital leading to death

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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FCT residents battle poverty, huge inequality

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 …

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Deplorable Niger community PHC after N5.454 billion approved health budget

Deplorable Niger community PHC after N5.454 billion approved health budget

Residents of Numbwa Tukura community in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger state do not have access to healthcare delivery as a Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in their area has since become deplorable. This is even as the community Primary Healthcare Centre serves an estimated 3,000 population and has continued to be this deplorable with …

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