Patients Still Struggling Despite New Medical Facilities in Adamawa’s Rural Communities

Patients Still Struggling Despite New Medical Facilities in Adamawa’s Rural Communities

Rashida Usman, 39, still remembers the painful memory of one Thursday morning in 2019. She had woken up at dawn to brace herself for a difficult journey from her home in Shelleng, a local government area in Adamawa, to Yola, the state capital in northeastern Nigeria. The absence of a secondary healthcare facility in Shelleng prompted Rashida’s journey. For years, she and many other women had to rely on a local dispensary that provided only prima…