Increasing Access To Quality Health Care Using Health Technology To 'Cut-Out' urban communities in Nigeria

Quality health is a fundamental right of all Nigerian citizens. While primary health care (PHC) centres are relatively uniformly distributed throughout local government areas (LGAs) in Nigeria, the 'cut-out' urban population... [ view full abstract ]

Quality health is a fundamental right of all Nigerian citizens. While primary health care (PHC) centres are relatively uniformly distributed throughout local government areas (LGAs) in Nigeria, the 'cut-out' urban population tend to underuse the basic health services. Unfortunately, there is a huge gap in the implementation of medical breakthroughs due primarily to distance apart and rugged terrain of access to quality healthcare centers. The main goal of this article take a careful look on how to BUILD LOCAL/TRADITION capacities to reach the ‘cut-out’ communities and “marginalized” population, providing quality healthcare services by members of communities, peer and youth groups; the reason for the population mix is to ensure step down trainings is carried out and overcome distance and language barriers using the readily available resources to ensure that quality healthcare breakthroughs are accessible to all.
With a population of about 178 million and reporting more deaths due to malaria than any country in the world, Nigeria became the seventeenth PMI country in 2010. Malaria accounts for 60% of outpatient visits and 30% of hospitalizations among children under-five in Nigeria. The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2013 reported an infant mortality of 69 per 1,000 live births and an under-five mortality of 128 per 1,000 live births in the preceding five-year period. Impressive progress has been made in malaria control efforts in recent years.
The goal of primary health care (PHC) was to provide accessible health for all by the year 2000 and beyond. Unfortunately, this is yet to be achieved where about two-thirds of Nigerians yet to be reached with quality healthcare (http.//www.fao.org/countryprofiles/ index.asp) and they deserve to be served with all the components of PHC.
KEY WORDS: Health care, medical intelligence, medical technology systems, Nigeria, IDPs, public health