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Nigeria suspends construction of hundreds of local health centres

Recently-elected Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua has suspended the construction of 774 healthcare centres throughout his country, drawing questions on how his administration plans to tackle the increasingly dire health care situation in Africa's most populous nation.

27 Aug 2007

"Whatever the rights or wrongs of the suspension of the contract… the fact remains that Nigeria has in recent years spent less of its budget per capita on healthcare than any other African government,” Ben Foot, programme director for Save the Children in Nigeria said.

Read the full article: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73917