No area in Nigeria has 50% entry to purposeful fundamental medical tools – NBS report
The 2023 National Health Facility Survey (NHFS), launched by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), reveals that no area in Nigeria has 50% entry to purposeful fundamental medical tools in well being amenities.
The survey highlights vital regional disparities, with the South-West main at 48.8%, adopted by the South-South at 43.7%, the North-East at 34.2%, the South-East at 32.3%, the North-Central at 22.8%, and the North-West at 20.9%.
The survey was performed in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and supported by the World Bank.
The report identifies a number of key challenges contributing to those gaps, reminiscent of the shortage of healthcare amenities in sure communities, outdated or damaged tools, insufficient medical personnel, poor high quality of service, and an ineffective referral system.
A well being facility mapping and itemizing train was performed to create an up-to-date checklist of all well being amenities in Nigeria, with 3,330 amenities randomly sampled throughout the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Availability of fundamental medical tools
The report revealed that 68% of Secondary Health Facilities (SHFs) and 29.9% of public Primary Health Facilities (PHFs) have purposeful fundamental medical tools.
Basic medical tools, as outlined within the survey, consists of weighing scales, thermometers, stethoscopes, blood strain (BP) equipment, and examination lights, all of which had been thought-about out there and functioning on the time of the survey.
Family planning and antenatal care providers
The outcome exhibits that 18.5% of amenities had Family Planning drugs, 19.5% had injectables, 20.5% had male condoms, and 17.8% had implants/Intrauterine units (IUDs).
Regarding Antenatal Care (ANC) providers, the common proportion of public well being amenities offering ANC was 79.7%, with the very best within the South-South (88.9%) and the bottom within the North-West (67.9%).
Additionally, 94.0% of Primary Health Facilities present iron dietary supplements as a part of ANC providers, whereas 97.4% supply folic acid.
Essential medication availability
The survey additionally assessed the provision of important medication, outlined as the proportion of important medication out there and never expired in well being amenities in the course of the survey.
- The findings confirmed that fifty.6% of important medication had been out there in SHFs, whereas 34.3% had been out there in PHFs.
- Immunization providers in public well being amenities
- Regarding immunization providers, the survey indicated that numerous vaccines had been out there at public well being amenities in the course of the survey.
- Measles antigen was out there in 51.9% of amenities, Pentavalent in 51%, and Oral Polio in 52%.
- Other out there vaccines included BCG (51%), Rotavirus (47.3%), and Pneumococcal (45.8%).
- Additional vaccines out there had been Inactivated Polio (48.6%), Human Papillomavirus (37.7%), Tetanus Toxoid/Tetanus Diphtheria (49%), Yellow Fever (50%), and Meningitis (48.1%).
Insights from the NHFS report
- The 2023 NHFS affords a radical analysis of the state of healthcare amenities in Nigeria, offering important insights into their preparedness and capability to ship important well being providers.
- The survey goals to assist healthcare managers at numerous ranges consider efficiency and determine weaknesses that have to be addressed to enhance service supply.
- It additionally seeks to evaluate the standard of care and the provision and readiness of secondary amenities to higher perceive their capability to offer providers.
