Health
Cholera Outbreak in Borno Leaves Trail of Grief, Survival and Overwhelmed Health System
For Yabaye, a widow in Maiduguri, the outbreak delivered a devastating blow that no medical intervention could reverse. When visited in her home, she sat quietly in a red hijab, clutching her tasbeeh and whispering prayers, her voice trembling
New COVID-19 variant is deadlier than ever
Breathlessness and a very high fever are just two of the symptoms of the new variant of the deadly coronavirus COVID-19. Abdullahi Bukar, a medical doctor who works at the […]
Pandemic ‘too inconvenient’ to be real
Some residents of Damboa in Borno State don’t believe in the coronavirus Covid-19 because it is too “inconvenient”. Alhaji Kolo Tasama, a resident, said he did not believe in the […]
Residents of camp are worried sick
If you’re going to go into labour, don’t do it at night in the internally displaced persons’ Sangaya Camp because there are no health workers to help and soldiers patrolling […]
Pregnant women “left to die’
Pregnant women and other patients fear dying in a hospital because the heath workers spend less than 15 hours a day at the facility in Damboa. Bintu Mu’azu, a patient […]
Empty bellies leave residents hungering for more
The high cost of food is leaving some residents going hungry in Maiduguri, Borno State. RNI reporter Hadiza Hawud spoke to some of the residents. Abubakar Zannah Musa Ajid […]
People are ‘sick’ of the lack of toilets
The lack of latrines in the Dalwa camp in Maiduguri in Borno State is becoming a health hazard for the internally displaced people living there as they are often forced […]
High Number of Sickle Cell Babies in Nigeria
Professor Nnodu Obiageli, the Director Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training, University of Abuja, says that an estimated 150, 000 babies were born with sickle cell […]
