Obi raises alarm over understaffing of PHCs, warns of threat to Nigerians

Presidential campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, has raised concerns implicit the authorities of Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs), informing that wide understaffing poses a superior menace to the lives and wellbeing of Nigerians.

Obi, successful a connection posted connected X on Monday, was reacting to a caller study which recovered that 97 per cent of assessed PHCs crossed 16 states failed to conscionable the nationalist staffing standard.

According to him, the findings could bespeak a broader nationwide crisis, with astir 80 per cent of PHCs perchance not functioning effectively.

Obi said the concern should not beryllium viewed arsenic “merely a statistic”, stressing that inadequate staffing astatine superior healthcare facilities could person superior consequences for susceptible Nigerians.

He noted that understaffed wellness centres could permission large women without timely aesculapian attraction and exposure children to preventable illnesses that could effect successful death.

“Health is the superior measurement of improvement successful immoderate federation and forms the instauration of healthcare,” Obi said, arguing that Nigeria could not physique a steadfast and productive...