COVID-19, doctors’ strike combine to render Sokoto women stranded

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Many women couldn’t go for antenatal care and that the situation of child delivery in local health centres has equally been quite cumbersome.

In the full glare of the afternoon sun, Rabiat Shafiu clung to her four-day-old daughter at the entrance of the emergency unit of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital , Sokoto.

“We came here this morning,” she began, eyes bloodshot. “My child is four-day old, and doesn’t have a name yet. We are here because my child developed navel complications. We were told that those that are doing the work, the doctors, have left because they are on strike. But the child is being attended to by a nurse now.”

Hassanatu Ibrahim, another patient at the teaching hospital, told PREMIUM TIMES she travelled to the city centre from Gongono village in Sokoto North Senatorial District because she couldn’t get basic healthcare at the nearby local primary health centre. “The coronavirus has changed the healthcare system in remote areas like my village because hospital staff are scared of transmission of the disease,” she said, her voice a mixture of melancholy and uncertainty.

 

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