No area in Nigeria has 50% entry to purposeful fundamental medical gear

The 2023 Nationwide Well being Facility Survey (NHFS), launched by the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS), reveals that no area in Nigeria has 50% entry to purposeful fundamental medical gear in well being services.

The survey highlights important 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 carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Well being and Social Welfare and supported by the World Bank.

The report identifies a number of key challenges contributing to those gaps, corresponding to the dearth of healthcare services in sure communities, outdated or damaged gear, insufficient medical personnel, poor high quality of service, and an ineffective referral system.

A well being facility mapping and itemizing train was carried out to create an up-to-date record of all well being services in Nigeria, with 3,330 services randomly sampled throughout the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Availability of fundamental medical gear

The report revealed that 68% of Secondary Well being Amenities (SHFs) and 29.9% of public Major Well being Amenities (PHFs) have purposeful fundamental medical gear.

Primary medical gear, as outlined within the survey, contains weighing scales, thermometers, stethoscopes, blood stress (BP) equipment, and examination lights, all of which have been thought of accessible and functioning on the time of the survey.

Household planning and antenatal care companies

The end result exhibits that 18.5% of services had Household Planning tablets, 19.5% had injectables, 20.5% had male condoms, and 17.8% had implants/Intrauterine units (IUDs).

Relating to Antenatal Care (ANC) companies, the common proportion of public well being services offering ANC was 79.7%, with the best within the South-South (88.9%) and the bottom within the North-West (67.9%).

Moreover, 94.0% of Major Well being Amenities present iron dietary supplements as a part of ANC companies, whereas 97.4% provide folic acid.

Important medication availability

The survey additionally assessed the provision of important medication, outlined as the share of important medication accessible and never expired in well being services throughout the survey.

The findings confirmed that fifty.6% of important medication have been accessible in SHFs, whereas 34.3% have been accessible in PHFs.
Immunization companies in public well being services
Relating to immunization companies, the survey indicated that numerous vaccines have been accessible at public well being services throughout the survey.
Measles antigen was accessible in 51.9% of services, Pentavalent in 51%, and Oral Polio in 52%.
Different accessible vaccines included BCG (51%), Rotavirus (47.3%), and Pneumococcal (45.8%).
Further vaccines accessible have 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 services in Nigeria, offering crucial insights into their preparedness and capability to ship important well being companies.
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 services to raised perceive their capability to supply companies.