Community Efforts Not Enough to Salvage Kodo PHC
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Community members have taken it upon themselves to repair their dilapidated Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) facility in Kodo, Wushishi Local Government Area…
Hugungumai Health Post: An Understaffed Facility Struggling to Keep Up with Community Needs
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The Hugungumai health post in the Ghari Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State serves over 2,500 residents of the community and…
Warawa PHC Progresses with Recent Enhancements but Staffing Shortages Persists
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In 2022, the Community Health Watch Project facilitated by Nigeria Health Watch directed its attention to Warawa Primary Health Centre (PHC) in…
CHIPS: Connecting Communities to Primary Health Care Facilities in Nasarawa State
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Twice a month, Mary Jacob, a Community Engagement Focal Person (CEFP), conducts supportive supervision of 35-year-old Afinnaki Ibrahim, a Community Health Influencer,…
Danbare Community Seeks the Opening of a ‘Newly-Built’ PHC
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Danbare community has a well-constructed Primary Health Center (PHC) however, community members have not been able to access the facility as it…
NiCare and The BHCPF Give Edokota PHC a New Look
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After years of wear and tear, the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Edokota, a farming community in Gbako Local Government Area (LGA)…
Human Resource, a Critical Need for Dawakiji Health Clinic
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Dawakiji Basic Health Clinic in Dawakiji community of Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State provides healthcare services to the…
Emi Umaru Clinic Where Health Inequity Thrives
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Adamu Jiya is the only health worker in the only health facility in Emi Umarua rural community in Gbako Local Government Area…
Matandi PHC: Only a Total Renovation will do.
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It is not hard for a first-time visitor to Matandi Primary Health Centre (PHC) to imagine it as the well-built, well equipped…
A case for an effective "Roof" over Primary Health Care in Nigeria
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We were on a road trip to Jos, capital city of Plateau State, famous for having the most temperate climate in Nigeria….
Money for Midwives: Will the BHCPF solve Midwifery's Funding Woes?
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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, recently made waves when he asserted that he was not worried about doctors leaving Nigeria,…
Is this Nigeria’s Last Lap to Polio Freedom?
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In about six months, Nigeria will achieve what will arguably be one of her recent greatest public health achievements; being declared polio-free….
Could a new typhoid vaccine end the most misdiagnosed disease in Nigeria?
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership on Health Series comes from Pharmacist and Public Health Specialist Chijioke Nwosu. He writes about the…
Is this the breaking of a new dawn in Nigeria’s health sector?
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Last Friday’s news flash that President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed new heads to five public health institutions took the Nigerian health sector…