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The Health Sector in Imo State under Ohakim

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 4, 2011

This blog will remain apolitical…even in a climate of intense politics in Nigeria. We will not suggest how people should vote, but we will try to point you to some things that should influence your decisions. Enough has been written on the fate of the people of Imo state in the past 4 years. Vanguard reports that judges […]

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How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 24, 2011

The simmering crisis in our public health care sector has now become a disaster as staff working in hospitals managed directly by the Federal Government have closed shop. If you have been following us on twitter you would have seen as more states joined strikes, all most on a daily basis. The Guardian reports that medical personnel are […]

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Nigerians on the average die 13 years sooner than Ghanaians

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 17, 2011

So very often in discussing the state of affairs in our country, we tend to compare ourselves to countries in the West, to the “Asian Tigers” or the BRIC nations. Lately we have adopted a more rationale path of comparing ourselves to our neighbors. The most obvious of these being Ghana. We share a colonial heritage with our […]

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Resign, Minister Resign!

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 4, 2011

While we stay glued to our television sets watching events unfold in Tunisia and Egypt, we ignore atrocities in our own governance. The image below is the home page of our Federal Ministry of Health. At the bottom right of the page, it has a picture titled “Honourable” Minister of State – Alhaji Suleiman Bello. Alhaji Bello is a […]

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Crisis in the health sector – but who cares?

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 31, 2011

We have spent the last few months in the Nigerian press quarrelling about “zoning”. Almost no airtime is given to the issues that challenge our country. The political landscape appears to be an issues free zone. Even at the best of times, health hardly makes it on the political agenda. I have often wondered what […]

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