AVAILABILITY, ADEQUACY AND UTILISATION OF CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRES IN NSUKKA HEALTH DISTRICT, ENUGU STATE

📄 Project Abstract

People seek to improve quality of life in both developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, most people in developing countries live in overcrowded houses with inadequate sanitation and unsafe water supply. Infectious disease and malnutrition are common especially among children. Death rate is high and life expectancy is low. World Health Organization - WHO (2002) estimated that ten million children under the age of five years die each year from complications arising from childhood diseases and 80 per cent of these deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ratio of infant mortality in the region is one of the highest in the world reaching a proportion of 113 per 1000 live births (World Bank, 2004). In Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health-FMOH (2007) reported that about 5.3 million children are born annually that is 11.000 per day. One million of these children die before the age of 5 years. The ministry further submitted that Nigeria's infant mortality rate (528 per day) is one ...