DWW assessment team has returned from Niger. Below are the summary points from their report.
Niger ’s poor health indicators can be linked directly to extreme poverty.
- There is a lot of scope of initiating programmes in the health sector.
- Maternal and Child health are areas of particular concern.
- Bureaucratic obstacles in setting up projects are limited.
- There are few local NGOs that would have the capacity to work with international partners in implementing programmes.
- A specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology centre or Paediatric centre would be feasible projects to set up and run, and both would have a measurable impact within their communities. Such centre would be self-sufficient in a few years.
- Such projects can then be further developed to include teaching and training programmes, as well as expanding in order to provide other medical/surgical services.
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DWW has started an obstetric fistula repair programme with a local charity. DWW also sending volunteers with the help of DWW-Turkey in order to conduct more operations. DWW also started free cataract operations. See updates for more information.
Click http://www.unfpa.org/fistula/docs/fistula-needs-assessment.pdf for more info about fistula problem. |
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Fact File
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Total population |
11,972,000 |
GDP per capita (Intl $, 2002) |
673 |
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years) |
42,0 / 41,0 |
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2002) |
35.8 / 35.2 |
Child mortality m/f (per 1000) |
258 / 265 |
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000) |
508 / 477 |
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2002) |
27 |
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2002) |
4.0 |
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(Source: WHO) |
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