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Hardship: Prayers have replaced medicine in most homes in Nigeria, says Obi

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Peter Obi, has said most households in Nigeria now resort to prayers when sick, rather than procuring medicines to treat themselves.

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He bemoaned the state of the nation’s health sector saying many pharmaceutical companies have left the country, making drugs very expensive for the poor, which is reason most homes now resort to prayers. “I visited a primary health centre in an outskirt of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory , and, discovered that there were 50 pregnant women in the hospital, and, there was just one medical staff attending to them.“The allocation to health as contained in the current national budget is nothing to write home about.

 

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