Failure of Primary Healthcare: New Nigeria not possible with citizens dying – Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the statesmanlike campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, connected Monday, said it was intolerable to physique a caller Nigeria portion radical are inactive dying owed to a anemic Primary Healthcare system.

Obi charged the Nigerian authorities to put much wealth into the superior healthcare strategy passim the country.

He made the remark successful effect to a study that criticised the mediocre show of Primary Healthcare Centres successful Nigeria.

A caller study said 97 percent of Primary Healthcare Centres, PHCs, did not conscionable the country’s staffing requirements successful 16 states of Nigeria.

Reacting to the study connected X, Obi said specified information was a large information for Nigerians.

He noted that the nonaccomplishment of PHCs is wherefore Nigeria is seen arsenic 1 of the hardest and poorest places to beryllium calved into and to unrecorded in.

He wrote: “The caller study showing that 97% of assessed Primary Healthcare Centres successful 16 states didn’t conscionable the nationalist staffing standard, isn’t conscionable a number. It tin beryllium applied to the state arsenic a whole, wherever astir 80% of PHCs are not moving properly.

“It reflects a superior risk. Health is the astir important indicator of a country’s advancement and serves arsenic the...