Nigeria Medical Health Points

Nigeria’s health care system is a tiered system of primary, secondary, and tertiary facilities. Primary care occurs predominately in the form of health clinics and dispensaries scattered throughout the country. Secondary care refers to healthcare and maternity centers and tertiary care is handled through the 12 university teaching hospitals. Overall healthcare institutions are considered poor as shortages of medical material and an unsafe blood supply are commonplace. Nigeria’s health indicators have declined over the past decade. Keeping doctors in Nigeria is a problem. Many doctors and highly trained medical staff leave Nigeria to pursue more lucrative jobs in countries with better infrastructure. Doctors who do remain have a history of going on strike, leaving citizens and communities in disarray. As of 2008, there were an estimated 4 doctors for every 10,000 inhabitants. Malaria and tuberculosis are the most common diseases in Nigeria. Malaria and diarrheal diseases accounted for the roughly half of all childhood mortality cases. Nigeria has one of the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the developing world. Serious outbreaks of cerebrospinal meningitis still occur in the northern region of the country. HIV/AIDS has reached epidemic levels in Nigeria. At the end of 2003, HIV/AIDS was estimated at 3.6 million and deaths from AIDS were estimated at 310,000. ISO3-International Organization for Standardization 3-digit country code NAME-Name of the medical facility TYPE-Type of medical facility CITY-City medical facility is located in SPA_ACC-Spatial accuracy of site location 1- high, 2 – medium, 3 - low SOURCE_DT-Source creation date SOURCE-Primary source Collection This HGIS was created using information collected from several different websites. BBBike and Wikimapia helped locate medical facilities and pharmacies. Medical facilities are labeled if no definitive type was identified in the research. After collecting this information, all medical facilities were geo-located using DigitalGlobe satellite imagery. Institutions without proper village locations were omitted from the shapefile. The data included herein have not been derived from a registered survey and should be considered approximate unless otherwise defined. While rigorous steps have been taken to ensure the quality of each dataset, DigitalGlobe Analytics is not responsible for the accuracy and completeness of data compiled from outside sources. Sources (HGIS) BBBike, "Nigeria." Last modified 2013. Accessed April 4, 2013. http://extract.bbbike.org.