Primary Healthcare Centres

Medical experts, policymakers interact on improving quality healthcare in Nigeria

NIGERIAN health workers and policymakers have raised a concern for a quality healthcare provision and the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) in the...

Rebecca Akinremi - May 15, 2019

Adewole claims FG has revitalised more than 3,000 PHCs

Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health, says more than 3,000 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) have been revitalised by the Federal Government in conjunction with state...

Kingsley OBIEJESI - February 26, 2018

INVESTIGATION: How corruption, cultural barrier worsen primary healthcare delivery in the north

By Olugbenga Adanikin Kuraye is a rural community that is a few kilometers off Katsina city. It is located in Charanchi Local Government, near the...

Editorial - December 26, 2017

INVESTIGATION: The terrible state of Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare Centres (II)

By Ebuka Onyeji ‘Out of service’ read the network signal on the Journalists’ phone at exactly 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday evening just as the driver,...

Editorial - December 17, 2017

INVESTIGATION: How contractors shortchange Federal Government as abandoned health centres worth billions of naira litter northern Nigeria

EDITOR’s Note: This is the second in a four part investigative series on Primary Healthcare Centres conducted by journalists in four newsrooms in Nigeria. This...

iCiR - November 17, 2017

Chaotic Maternal Health Policies Hurt Nigerian Women

An estimated 145 women continue to die daily in Nigeria of pregnancy and childbearing-related causes due to ineffective interventions in maternal health and poor...

Editorial - March 1, 2017