From leaders of medical and health workers' unions and government officials, PREMIUM TIMES gathered that primary health centres in security-wise vulnerable areas are suffering from a lack of adequate staff.
"The situation has become dicey especially in the frontline local government areas because our members feel unsafe working in those areas," Bala Mohammed-Sulaiman, the state medical and health workers union chairman, said. The health workers' leader said a member of the union has been in captivity for four years."We don't know whether he is alive or not."
"We have two health workers who come from Batsari town. Once it's 3 m., they leave our community and return to Batsari because the road is not safe," a resident of the Dan Tsuntsu community said. A resident of Mabai in the Kankara area told PREMIUM TIMES that not only health workers but others including teachers are running away from their communities.
"We'll restore the health care sector of the state by God's grace, because we're working towards achieving that. As you know, the state government has taken measures to protect the people of the state from terrorists.