ANALYSIS: Nigeria's missed opportunity amidst successful Demographic Health Survey

ince the year it started, once again, data on non-communicable disease is absent from this all-important document.

Samuel Oyeniyi, a Deputy Director in the Safe Motherhood Division at the Federal Ministry of Health, who worked on the NDHS, said “the aim of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey is focused on health planning in Nigeria. It is the most acceptable source of data on health indices in the eyes of the ministry.“This is not to say that the others are not acceptable but this is the most for health and policy planning,” Mr Oyeniyi said.

The NDHS aims to serve as a means to “better understand the population, health, and nutrition situation”, and so it is a gaping error that data on non-communicable diseases is once again omitted from this report. So, with this in mind, why is the issue of non-communicable diseases or indeed their biomarkers not being targeted?

The civil society organisation PACFAH , when commenting to PTCIJ on the omission of NCDs, said that while they commend the Federal Ministry of Health on completing the report of the NDHS, “the narrative that non communicable diseases affects only the developed countries has been made obsolete by data series evidencing that Nigeria is undergoing epidemiological transition with incremental rise of NCDs.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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