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Alexandrina Burbidge
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When former president Olusegun Obasanjo invoked the measure twice in 2004 and 2006, he removed democratically elected governors and installed appointed administrators to manage the states, both former military officers.
The state of emergency that President Goodluck Jonathan declared in three northern states of Nigeria in response to attacks by the extremist Islamist sect Boko Haram could well extend to a wider swath of the country, according to John Paden, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia who is a noted expert on Africa.
At the same time, other areas are booming, Lewis said. He cited the port city of Lagos in the southwest as an example, with its telecommunications, banking and other industries and young high-tech entrepreneurs setting up shop and local governing structures that are increasingly effective and largely outside the control of the central state.
It remains to be seen if the declaration will have any practical effect. Jonathan has promised to increase the number of troops operating in the three states, but it is unclear where he will find them. The military is overstretched already. It is not clear whether Nigeria has even met its commitment to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for a Mali force that is being placed under the UN authority. In his declaration, Jonathan indicated that he will be seeking international support; already at the Baga massacre Nigerien and Chadian forces were involved, as well as Nigerian.
Isah Mohammed (pictured above), a resident of Benue state who operates a small laundry business, is happy to see some progress in his ability to access water. He reflects upon the challenges he and his neighbors had long faced prior to the NUWSRP. Photo: Nigeria National Urban Water Sector Reform Program (NUWSRP)
Introduction: Emergency care systems provide timely and relevant care to the acutely ill and injured. Published commentaries have characterised deficiencies in the Nigerian emergency care system and offered potential solutions but have not included the perspectives of the Nigerian public. A more inclusive approach that includes feedback from the public may help improve the Nigerian emergency care system through better understanding of the needs, values and expectations of the community.
Methods: Participants of an emergency medicine symposium participated in focus group discussions that were randomly divided into small groups led by two trained facilitators. These facilitators asked open-ended, semistructured questions to lead discussions in the English language. Participant responses were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim into transcripts. Two independent investigators employed conventional content analysis to code the transcripts until thematic saturation was achieved.
Results: Three descriptive themes emerged characterising the current state of Nigeria's emergency care system as it relates to prehospital care delivery, hospital care delivery and health system governance: rudimentary, vulnerable and disconnected. At the prehospital level, concepts revolved around emergency recognition and response, ambulance and frontline providers, and cultural norms. At the hospital level, concepts centred around the health workforce, clinical competency, hospital capacity and the burden of financial hardship. At the health system level, concepts concentrated on healthcare access and healthcare financing. Opportunities for emergency care system improvement at each component level were identified and explored.
Conclusions: The participants in this study identified shortcomings and opportunities to improve prehospital care, hospital care and health system governance. The results of this study may help healthcare professionals, policy makers and community leaders identify gaps in the emergency care system and offer solutions in harmony with the needs, values and expectations of the community. If successful, these community-informed interventions may serve as a model to improve emergency care systems throughout Africa.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan imposed states of emergency in three states Wednesday, promising to send more soldiers to the northeast to put down a growing threat from militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram group and an offshoot, Ansaru.
NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton says Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, which are close to the Chadian border on the east, are beset with violence. Militants are threatening to impose strict Islamic law in the region, and are establishing control with more sophisticated weaponry. Ofeibea says Nigeria has been accused of doing "too little, too late," and that Jonathan has acknowledged he's not fully in control.
According to Reuters, officials say militants control at least 10 government areas in the state of Borno, where fighters overran the town of Bama last week, freeing more than 100 prisoners and killing at least 55 people. A few days before that, dozens of people reportedly died in the town of Baga, on Lake Chad. Nigerian troops, aided by troops from Niger and Chad burst into the town looking for guerrillas.
There also are reports of many more deaths at the hands of Nigerian government troops. Last week, The New York Times reported on the soaring number of bodies brought to the morgue in the city of Maiduguri, in Borno state. As many as 60 bodies may arrive in a single day.
Nigerian opposition groups have denounced the new states of emergency, instead insisting that the government continue trying to talk to Boko Haram leaders, with an eye toward a possible amnesty for militants.
Conflict is affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in northeast Nigeria. A total 4.4 million people are facing acute hunger and 320.000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Violence and insecurity are causing mass movements of people, with over 2 million living in camps or host communities within Nigeria and tens of thousands seeking refuge in neighbouring countries, including Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Many of those who left the country are now returning, needing food and shelter.
Previous efforts to estimate the travel time to comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have either been based on spatial models or self-reported travel time, both with known inaccuracies. The study objectives were to estimate more realistic travel times for pregnant women in emergency situations using Google Maps, determine system-level factors that influence travel time and use these estimates to assess CEmOC geographical accessibility and coverage in Lagos state, Nigeria. Data on demographics, obstetric history and travel to CEmOC facilities of pregnant women with an obstetric emergency, who presented between 1st November 2018 and 31st December 2019 at a public CEmOC facility were collected from hospital records. Estimated travel times were individually extracted from Google Maps for the period of the day of travel. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to test associations between travel and health system-related factors with reaching the facility >60 minutes. Mean travel times were compared and geographical coverage mapped to identify 'hotspots' of predominantly >60 minutes travel to facilities. For the 4005 pregnant women with traceable journeys, travel time ranges were 2-240 minutes (without referral) and 7-320 minutes (with referral). Total travel time was within the 60 and 120 minute benchmark for 80 and 96% of women, respectively. The period of the day of travel and having been referred were significantly associated with travelling >60 minutes. Many pregnant women living in the central cities and remote towns typically travelled to CEmOC facilities around them. We identified four hotspots from which pregnant women travelled >60 minutes to facilities. Mean travel time and distance to reach tertiary referral hospitals were significantly higher than the secondary facilities. Our findings suggest that actions taken to address gaps need to be contextualized. Our approach provides a useful guide for stakeholders seeking to comprehensively explore geographical inequities in CEmOC access within urban/peri-urban LMIC settings.
The second funding period is now open for the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Loan Fund program. This program supports states, eligible Tribal Nations, and territories in establishing loan programs that provide mitigation assistance for local governments.
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In April 2013, the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme cited local observers as suggesting that violence in Borno was thought to be spilling into localized areas of Yobe and Adamawa. [4] Indeed, depending on the baseline, a Local Government Area-level assessment using the P4P Peacebuilding Map (www.p4p-nigerdelta.org) does show fluctuations in certain pockets. During this period at the state level, however, Yobe and Adamawa actually had fewer reported incidents of violence than several other regions of the country not included in the state of emergency. And the overall trends in reported incidents and fatality estimates do not show a general deterioration in the security situation in Yobe and Adamawa, broadly speaking. Nevertheless, there are certainly ongoing issues of violence that need to be addressed for the sake of peaceable livelihoods and sustainable human security as well as the stability of the Nigerian state.
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