Showing posts with label Poverty and Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty and Health. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Two Women

Image by Shades of Us

By Yecenu Sasetu

Poverty became a harsh reality for me about ten years ago when I met a pregnant woman who had never attended antenatal care because she couldn’t afford the N100 registration fee. She was eight months pregnant but had never been examined by a doctor or nurse, simply because she couldn’t pay to register at the Primary Health Center.