“This Health Care delivery system is the bedrock of the national health system and a sure way towards achieving the sustainable development goals. “Essential equipment to deliver basic obstetric emergency health care services is generally absent in all the primary health care facilities in the targeted local governments. “The inadequate number of frontline health workers has no access to clean water in the Primary Health posts due to increase in population, some primary health care facilities need to be upgraded. For example; a primary health post established 15 years ago needs to be upgraded to higher primary health care facilities so as to accommodate the increasing population. They also asked the government to provide more tricycle ambulances for easy referral in emergence cases and basic obstetric emergency health care services in all the Primary Health Care Centers.

Source: Nigerian Tribune April 22, 2021 17:03 UTC