SPECIAL REPORT: As govt resettles IDPs in Borno, functional PHCs top residents’ priorities

After a long day selling firewood, sleep eluded Khadija Musa. Her head throbbed and her temperature rose throughout the night.

A PHC should serve between 10,000 and 20,000 patients, according to Nigeria’s Minimum Standards for Primary Health Care But at the centre, there was no doctor to attend to her. The nurse on duty told her she had Malaria, a common ailment that she had also suspected. “Since they brought the IDPs, there’s always a long queue,” Maryam Abba, a 30-year-old mother of five, said in frustration. “Even when drugs are available, you have to wait longer because the staff are not many.”

Primary Health Care Centre, Shuwari Jere LGA, Borno State, is managed by the Alliance for International Medical Action , a Dakar-based medical humanitarian organisation. Photo: Qosim Suleiman/ Premium Times. However, on a Wednesday, just before 2 p.m. when PREMIUM TIMES visited the facility, only two health workers were on duty – Ms Bako and Aishatu Abba, a midwife assistant.

For electricity, she said the facility uses a generator from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. when they close for the day.Many residents of the resettlement community expressed satisfaction with the services they get which include free consultation and drugs. But some of them raised concerns. She said she once had a skin condition that required her to use Miconazole cream on her body from time to time.

However, a midwife assistant at the facility, Aishatu Abba, said the facility was no longer getting many supplies, prompting it to ration what is available.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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