Insurgency taking toll on healthcare in northern Nigeria

When in October 2010 a bomb exploded during the Independence Day celebrations in Abuja killing about two dozen people, Nigerians couldn't have dreamt of a time bombing would become a serial occurrence as we now have today.

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Bomb explosion kills 8 at Nigeria's School of Hygiene

School of Hygiene, Kano, northern Nigeria is the latest target of a series of bomb explosions rocking rocking northern Nigeria. Following the explosion, the Nigerian Police said 8 people were killed during the incidence.

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Boko Haram pose grave danger to healthcare delivery in Nigeria - WHO

International organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Commonwealth at the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) have expressed great concern over the rising activities of extremists in Nigeria, they said it  posed grave danger health delivery in the country.

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Nigeria's missing girls at risk of rape, HIV and vesicovaginal fistula

For about two weeks, the whole world had focused on Nigeria as citizens search for answers on the fate of the missing girls - over 200 - who were taken away from their schools by armed unnamed groups suspected to be members of Boko Haram terrorists' group. 

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Healthcare services unaffected by Boko Haram insurgency - Borno state goverment

Even as northern Nigeria is ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency, Borno Government has denied allegation by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) that  healthcare services have collapsed in the North-East region due to the activities of insurgents.

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SOS: Voluntary blood donors needed to save lives of bomb blast victims

Urgent help is needed to save the lives of victims affected by the bomb blast that struck the federal capital of Abuja this morning.

The twin bomb blast happened at around 7am this morning at Nyanya Park as people were preparing to go to their work places. There are still speculations about the number of people who are dead. Many of those who sustained various degrees of injuries have been taken to hospitals for urgent medical attention.

Consequently, there has been an urgent call to well-meaning Nigerians to assist in saving the lives of these people. There help is mainly needed in the area of voluntary blood donations to help control blood loss among the injured at the Asokoro General Hospital.

This was revealed by the Nigerian Television Authority through their twitter handle.

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Policemen Invades University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Doctor Shot

The crisis in Borno state today took a dramatic turn when officers of the Nigerian Police Force besieged the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. During the visit, a medical officer was shot, several others were beating and equipment in some laboratories were destroyed by the angry officers. 

Speaking to newsmen under condition of anonymity, an employee at the tertiary health facility said the policemen went on rampage when they were told the hospital's morgue has been filled beyond its capacity and can no longer accommodate additional corpse that the officer brought to the hospital. 

"You know when there is no place to keep corpses, sometimes they are kept on the floor pending when a space is created for refrigerating, but when they came this morning, the mobile policemen went on rampage and started shooting. They beat up a professor and other medical staff and also shot a medical doctor before some Military men in the hospital came to bring the situation under control,” the employee said.

The state of insecurity in the hospital has compelled the medical officers to refuse to attend to the corpses that were brought to the hospital by the law enforcement officers.

“The doctors are saying that, they deserve some respect from the uniform men because some of the security operatives, particularly the police have this disrespecting attitude towards them. Some of these doctors and professors they beat up would have been IGPs if they were policemen, but somebody who is far down the ladder would be treating them as nobody.” he  said.

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