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The women complained of a lack of medicine in the facility. Basic services such as family planning and laboratory tests are also unavailable. So, they travel for 30 minutes through rough untarred roads to Maitumbi, a town on the outskirts of Minna, the state capital, to visit the hospital and buy drugs. In the event of an emergency, pregnant women are attended to at home by traditional birth attendants.
“We usually have to go all the way to Maitumbi during emergencies at night because the health workers close from work at about 2 pm every day. They don’t give us any medical advice at the hospital or what kind of foods to eat as pregnant women. They only touch our stomachs and prescribe drugs that they don’t have. The crowd is always massive.”Even in the city, drugs have become more expensive.
“We don’t give the women in labour drugs or any traditional medicine to ease delivery. We just pray to God and hope that we don’t experience any complications. But when the situation gets complicated, we usually find a tricycle to take the woman to a hospital in town,” she said. “We have stopped family planning services because we don’t have supplies of the items we need. We have told the women that we cannot deliver the service to them anymore. We don’t have anything here, but some of them keep coming. We go to Gunu village to get vaccines for children. For child delivery, we usually use touch lights at night because the facility doesn’t have electricity.”
At Babangida She village in Shiroro LGA, when the situation became dire and help came from nowhere, the women started contributing money to make the health centre work, but now they are tired. Abarah Saleh, Mai Unguwa of the village, said it is stressful making sure their families don’t go hungry and still be worried about them falling sick because of the poor state of the facility.Zainab, Mr Saleh’s wife, said the women are often scared of emergency health crises.
Other times, it is more than the prayer that makes the mission houses attractive. At government hospitals, the waiting time is usually long because there are just a few medical personnel attending to a plethora of women, some of whom are heavily pregnant. When a doctor or nurse eventually attends to you, it is brief, and they quickly move on to the next person.
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