Alarming shortage of health personnel in conflict-affected Nigeria

Language EnglishMAIDUGURI, Nigeria –Retired but not tired. This is how people describe Hauwa Lassa, a nurse and midwife who came out of retirement to care for women and girls affected by the conflict in north-eastern Nigeria.“I have been working in the field of maternal health in this country for more than 35 years,” she told UNFPA in Maiduguri, where she works at a health facility in one of the displacement camps. “It is now with this crisis going on that the women need support. So I decided to come back to the h ealth centre and help.”
Source: UNFPA News - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news