Classroom converted to clinic at Gwagwalada

Residents of Shanagu community in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT said they have converted a classroom at the community’s primary school to a clinic for the past 15 years because the council authorities have failed to build a befitting health centre for them.

The village head of Shanagu, Abdullahi Umar, who spoke with Aso Chronicle recently, said lack of access to standard primary health centre to enable his people get medical treatment is the major challenge of the area.
He said only skeletal services are carried out by a health personnel attached to the clinic, adding that patients that have severe illness, including expectant mothers, travel to Zuba to seek for medical attention.
He complained that the two hand pump boreholes at the community have broken down for some time, adding that residents now fetch water from a borehole built at the village mosque by a philanthropist.
“Even the river water, especially at the peak of this rainy season, is not hygienic for drinking because of dirt that flows right from Suleja down to this village, only women go there to wash their clothes,” he said.
The village head lamented the lack of electricity at the community, appealing to the council authorities to extend electricity from neighbouring Machada in order to boost social and economic activities in the area.

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