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From Innovation to Integration: What It Will Take to Make Every Pregnancy Safer in Nigeria

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Face to face with Nigeria’s ailing emergency health system: One daughter’s story

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 1, 2018

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from a Nigeria Health Watch team member. She writes about coming head to head with the challenges facing Nigeria’s health system during her father’s recent health emergency. Her father is recuperating but the experience led her to think deeply about Nigeria’s emergency healthcare system and what must be done […]

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Before the first impact: How your little actions can save lives on Nigerian roads

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 30, 2018

On Monday, February 10, 2014, Mr. Celestine Chima kissed his two children, seven-year-old Goodluck and five-year-old Goodness goodbye and stepped out of his residence in Owerri, the Imo state capital. Celestine was certain about two things; his destination, a small densely populated town called Nekede, approximately 20 minutes’ drive from his house and his mission […]

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 27th July 2018

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 27, 2018

Ebola outbreak in DRC ends: WHO calls for international efforts to stop other deadly outbreaks in the country. Over 5,000 Nigerian doctors working in South Africa – Envoy. FG explains delay in implementation of National Tobacco Control Act.  FDA approves new single dose malaria drug. Cholera claims 186 lives in 6 months – NCDC. We are committed […]

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Gasping for Air: Doctor’s death exposes inherent risks of Nigerian public hospitals

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 25, 2018

By Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and Patience Adejo (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: On the 19th of June, 2018, headlines of Nigerian newspapers carried a shocking piece about the demise of a Kogi Doctor. Realising that there must be more to this, the Nigeria Health Watch team headed out to Lokoja to find out more. While we […]

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How “SatComms Tablets” are reviving primary healthcare in Kano State

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 23, 2018

A few mothers are seated with the Health Officer-in-Charge of Sumaila Yamma Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), who has just finished post-natal counseling. Bilikis, a second-time mother, cannot hide her delight that today she was attended to earlier than usual. She comments that during her first pregnancy, also attended to at this PHC, things were a […]

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