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Despite risks, poor state of PHCs forces pregnant women to embrace traditional birth attendants in Ogun

 By Oladejo ADEBAYO In Ogun state, inadequate modern healthcare facilities lead many pregnant women to choose traditional birth homes. This...
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Health

How Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Border Agency, paid millions for unexecuted, uncompleted health projects in Jigawa

By Arinze Chijioke THIS investigation by SOLACEBASE correspondent Arinze Chijioke looks at how communities in Jigawa State suffer due to...
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Health

How no chequebooks affect healthcare provision in Kano communities despite fund availability

By Stephen Enoch - Kano Three years after the commencement of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) in Kano state,...
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Featured News

Good health is still a privilege, not a right in Nigeria. Here is why

DIRECTOR  General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros  Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his speech during an event in Geneva to...
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Fact-Check

FACT CHECK: Did Buhari promise to revitalise 10,000 PHCs, as denied by Adewole?

On Sunday, Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health, said the Federal Government never promised to revitalise 10,000 Primary Healthcare Centres...
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Investigations

INVESTIGATION: Ghost hospitals, expired drugs, leaking roofs, waterlogged drug stores… the multimillion-naira health centres in the south-east are in tatters

Editor's Note: This is the first report of a special four-part investigative series on Primary Health Centres involving journalists...
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