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The Life and Death Situation of Pregnant Women in Tudun Fulani

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 31, 2025

Pregnancy is not just a journey of life, it is a gamble with death for women in Tudun Fulani, a rural community in Bunkure Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State. With the nearest hospital in another town, expectant mothers like Hadiza Shu’aibu, a mother of five, risk everything on perilous roads, hoping to make […]

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Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health is Key to Nigeria’s Health and Growth

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 30, 2025

Maureen Moneke and Christopher Bassey (Lead writers) Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is crucial in attaining several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those on good health and wellbeing, quality education, gender equality and reduced inequalities. In Nigeria, this urgency is heightened by its youthful population, which makes up about 70% of the country’s […]

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Enugu’s Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres Bring Quality Healthcare Closer to Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 28, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) “The goal of citing Primary Health Centres is that people should not have to walk for more than 5 kilometres to access them,” — World Health Organization recommendation. Beneath the shade of a mango tree, a group of women in Otuku, a small community in Enugu East Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu […]

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Lights Out, Lives Lost: The Human Cost of Hospital Blackouts on Maternal Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 27, 2025

Sunday Oko and Mahdi Garba (Lead writers)“Thirty minutes into my wife’s C-section, NEPA [a colloquial term for electricity distribution companies] interrupted [the hospital’s] electricity,” recalled Shehu Danjuma Umar, in a Facebook post. He added that the government-owned facility had no fuel for the back-up generator meant to power the theatre. When fuel eventually arrived, the […]

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A Shop Turned Clinic as Badari Fights for Healthcare Access

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 24, 2025

Childbirth is a gamble in Badari, Kano State, with no health centre in sight. Resident’s survival depends on luck and local goodwill. Badari, a rural community in Gwarzo Local Government Area, has lacked a functioning health facility for over five years since the only health post which served the community collapsed. With an estimated population […]

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