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Four years after the Akarukpat Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Ekporoden began operations, it continues to struggle to meet its mission of providing quality, comprehensive, and affordable healthcare. The PHC faces severe staffing shortages, with only one health worker and a single bed. It lacks essential facilities and resources, including a doctor for routine visits, a pharmacy, medications, a nursing station, consulting rooms, wards, potable water, a fetal heart rate monitor, a working fridge for vaccines, a stretcher, oxygen for patients, and sufficient funding. Located near the Government’s Migrant and Technical College, the center has no internal water supply, relying solely on rainwater and a stream over two kilometers away, although it does have a storage tank. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4bK9GaC This eye-opening report by Africa Data Hub, authored by Archibong Jeremiah Ojanga delves into the challenges of accessing healthcare in Cross River State.
