{"id":187317,"date":"2024-12-26T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-primary-health-care-leadership-challenge-where-winning-should-save-lives\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:59:46","slug":"nigeria-the-primary-health-care-leadership-challenge-where-winning-should-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-primary-health-care-leadership-challenge-where-winning-should-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge &#8211; Where Winning Should Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Abuja \u2014 <em>&#8220;Pregnant women and patients requiring medical care are compelled to embark on a two kilometre journey to access fundamental laboratory and scanning services at other facilities, due to the PHC&#8217;s lack of essential medical equipment and deteriorating infrastructure&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">This account came from a weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.nigeriahealthwatch.com\/category\/community-health-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Community Health Watch<\/em><\/a> report produced by Nigeria Health Watch, where community reporters share the experiences of people in Niger and Kano State regarding the quality of healthcare they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412250181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja \u2014 &#8220;Pregnant women and patients requiring medical care are compelled to embark on a two kilometre journey to access fundamental laboratory and scanning services at other facilities, due to the PHC&#8217;s lack of essential medical equipment and deteriorating infrastructure&#8221;. This account came from a weekly Community Health Watch report produced by Nigeria Health Watch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5732,7485,5731,8771,8485,257,4687,393,7518,7301,254,15104],"class_list":["post-187317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-care","tag-challenge","tag-health","tag-leadership","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-primary","tag-save","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}