Hafsat Bello Just weeks after the Gurjiya Primary Health Care (PHC) renovation, a newly installed solar battery, which helped power the facility, was stolen, raising a troubling question: Can improved facilities truly function without adequate security? For residents, this single incident now threatens essential services meant to save lives and it was the major discussion […]
Favour Ani and Safiya Shuaibu Isa (Lead writers) In a stabilisation ward (a specialised treatment unit for severe malnutrition) in northern Nigeria, a child with severe acute malnutrition needs immediate action, not sympathy. That child needs swift screening, clear referral pathways, readily available therapeutic food, and health workers who are not forced to ration care. […]
Hadiza Mohammed and Onyedikachi Ewe (Lead writers) Success, 13, did not panic when she got her first period. ‘I was educated early,’ she recalled, ‘I simply used a sanitary pad and carried on with my day.’ In many Nigerian communities, that kind of confidence is still not common for girls entering puberty. Success is a […]
Ibukun Oguntola and Chinwendu Iroegbu (Lead writers) In this latest edition of Nigeria Health Watch’s Curated Conversations, the Country Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Nigeria, Dr Pavel Ursu, discusses what it takes to transform Nigeria’s primary health care (PHC) system from vision into reality. His conversation with Nigeria Health Watch comes at a […]
A poem by Dr. Ebere Okereke – Inspired by Kwesi Brew’s “The Sea Eats Our Land” Dr Ebere Okereke wrote this poem in the wake of several deaths close to her, each painful and, in important ways, avoidable. They did not arise from one isolated failure. They reflected a chain of neglect, weak infrastructure, delayed […]
