Health Denial: Inside Rigasa General Hospital Where One Doctor Serves Millions—Unconscious Patients Wait, Die, or Leave
Despite having an unconscious patient who needed emergency attention, we waited for about 5 hours without medical observation. We had no option but to go to a far-distant health facility—Mrs Ummuhani Abdulrahamn told Daily Episode, crying for her son’s survival. “Had I known there was no
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How Smile Train’s Free Cleft Surgery Eradicates Stigma, Transform Lives in Africa
A Cleft lip and palate surgery by a team of professional doctors dedicated to saving vulnerable patients suffering from facial deformity in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria, In Africa, children and adults with facial deformities (basically, facial tumors, noma, cleft lip, and palate) and others with special needs
Read MoreDisplaced and Starving: Victims of Armed Conflicts in Nigeria Cry for Help
As insecurity intensifies in the northwestern Nigerian region, every day thousands of people are forced to flee their towns and villages as they struggle to make ends meet away from their homes, businesses, schools, and social networks. To them, life is driven by pain and sorrow
Read MoreSurviving Hard in a Thirsty Community with No Access to Water, Electricity
“For the well-being, hygiene, and survival of humans, water is a necessity. However, the Kwaru community in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State in northwestern Nigeria has been deprived of this essential resource, along with electricity, which has become as rare as gold
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How Poor Response by Fire Service, Victims’ Negligence Fuel Fire Incidents in Nigeria
Aside from armed conflicts and violence, fire incidents are one menace depopulating Nigerian citizens. Data from the WHO indicate that about 0.48% of Nigerians died from fire incidents in the year 2020, a figure representing 7,132 of the total accumulation, while an increase in the accidents
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Homeless Fatima Gift Husband Owns Land After Getting A House
Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria: It was a humanitarian engagement in northern Nigeria in March 2023 and the period of Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims across the globe, when a Facebooker, Auwal Adam, filmed and posted an unusual picture and video of a lady, Fatima Usman, producing
Read MoreCitizens Demand Repair of Nigeria’s Damaged Roads
With more than a thousand portholes on the Nnamdi Azikiwe expressway in Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, citizens, especially motorists, from interstate travellers to residents plying on vehicles, motorbikes, tricycles, bicycles, and foot walkers, count a flow of blood from road accidents that resulted in
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Health Risk in Kaduna’s Neglected Community, Where Government Hospitals, Schools, Are Run By Volunteers
Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria – Despite being essential to humans, politicians promise health care, free education, and protection of lives and property during campaigns. Governance ensures citizens enjoy the mention without bother, but in this case, communities surrounding Kurmin Kaduna in Kaduna State’s Igabi local government area
Read MoreReaching Communities With Free Medical Care
As the delivery of health services keeps declining, many communities and disadvantaged families suffer the consequences of negligence, poor infrastructure, corruption, a shortage of medical health personnel, and a lack of medical facilities and standard medication in many parts of Nigerian communities. To that effect, many
Read MoreNigeria Risks Food Insecurity Over Devastating Flooding
In the year 2022, due to global warming, Nigerian families are pushed to the brink of extreme need for humanitarian support as climate change-related issues, especially flooding, erode more than 440, 000 hectares of land while submerging crops, houses, and even cemeteries across the geopolitical zones
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