| maternal mortality in Nigeria June 22, 2007, 08:13:35 pm by django |
| A Damning but true report has said that 54,000 Nigerian women die yearly of complications arising from pregnancy and childbirth. Accoding to the report maternal deaths in nigeria stand at 800 per 100,000. Frifhtening as it is, this report is only but a true reflection of recorded cases of maternal mortality rates in the country; majority of the cases especially in the rural areas that constitute more than 80 per cent of the population are largely unknown, but almost certainly higher. This sad reality happens in a country the prouds itself as the 12th largest producer or crude oil, and one of the wealthiest nations in black africa with over $40 billion in foreign reserves...... read on |
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| Nigerian Universities and World Ranking ! June 22, 2007, 04:14:02 pm by django |
| The latest worldwide universities ranking shows that nigerian universities have dropped out of reckoning because of the poor quality and scope of research conducted by indiginous academics. No nigerian University featured on the worlds best 500 universities..... Guardan nig |
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| Health Funding in Nigeria June 22, 2007, 04:13:35 pm by django |
| Although Nigeria prouds it self as the Giant of Africa and the 12th largest crude oil producer in the world, the state of social sevices and healthcare is so deplorable that even much poorer or less endowed african countries enjoy a better standard of living and longer life expectancy than Nigerians. Firstly, government's burgetary votes and actual spending on the health sector have consistently been grossly short of the five percent minimum recommended for all nations by the world health organisation(WHO). from one year to another, allocation to the health sector oscillates between 1.5 per cent to tow per cent of the entire budget for the particular year! for nearly five decades, a combination of continual underfunding, perennial coruption and governments non challence towards health and welfare compounded by an ever increasing population has resulted to a progressive deterioration of infrasture and lack of adequate drugs and vital equipment in government hospitals and other healthcare centers. |
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