Kaduna: Dearth of Medical workers hits crisis point - Vanguard

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In Unguwar Ali Gado, a suburb of Birnin Gwari town, about 300km from Kaduna metropolis lies a Maternal and Child Clinic established to cater for basic health issues of the women and children of the estimated 10,000 residents. “This Centre has 15 beds, but has a capacity to take 50”, said one of the staff who does not want his name published. “We are mainly concern with antenatal and children issues. We treat on the average about 300 of them daily. At times we get 10 deliveries a day, but we only have one delivery bed.

The story is the same at the Sabon Gari-Giwa Primary Health Centre in Giwa LGA of the state, about an hour’s drive from Kaduna. This centre which takes an average delivery of 10 babies a day, and 200 patients daily, does not have single microscope among others. With no generator, the Centre has been without light for three months, because it has been unable to pay for its monthly light bill of Four thousand Naira only (N4000).

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