Primary Health Care Services In Nigeria: Critical Issues And Strategies For Enhancing The Use By The Rural Communities

Primary Health Care Services In Nigeria: Critical Issues And Strategies For Enhancing The Use By The Rural Communities

Preface

The thing of primary health care( PHC) was to give accessible health for all by the time 2000 and further. Unfortunately, this is yet to be achieved in Nigeria and seems to be unrealistic in the coming decade. The PHC

points at furnishing people of the world with the introductory health services. Though PHC centers were established in both pastoral and civic areas in Nigeria with the intention of equity and easy access, regrettably, the pastoral populations

in Nigeria are seriously underserved when compared with their civic counterparts. About two- thirds of Nigerians

live in pastoral( http.//www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp) areas thus they earn to be served with

all the factors of PHC.

Quality health is a abecedarian right of all Nigerian citizens. While primary health care( PHC) centers are fairly slightly distributed throughout original government areas( LGAs) in Nigeria, the pastoral people tend to underuse the introductory health services. This composition examines some cross cutting issues in PHC and outlines strategies to enhance the application of health services by pastoral people. The responsibility for immortalizing the being low use of PHC services should be held by PHC policy makers and LGA. Responsible health labor force can make a new social order, grounded on lesser equity and mortal quality, in which health for all by the time 2015, including that of pastoral populations, will no

more be a dream but a reality. Capacity structure and commission of communities through exposure,

rallying and community association as respects training, information sharing and nonstop dialogue, could further enhance the application of PHC services by pastoral populations.