{"id":62297,"date":"2018-11-17T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62297"},"modified":"2018-11-17T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:00:14","slug":"70-million-nigerians-live-below-poverty-line-osibogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62297","title":{"rendered":"70 Million Nigerians Live Below Poverty Line \u2013 Osibogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juicebox-parent\">\n<div class=\"juicebox-container\" id=\"field--node--64959--field-images--fulltext\">\n<p><!-- Image gallery content for non-javascript devices --><\/p>\n<p class=\"jb-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/70-Million-Nigerians-Live-Below-Poverty-Line-\u2013-Osibogun.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"jb-image\">\n<p><span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1542460802_224_70-Million-Nigerians-Live-Below-Poverty-Line-\u2013-Osibogun.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content\"><span class=\"block-story-object-content-header\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former chief medical director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Public Health Expert, Prof Akin Osibogun, has said that about 70 million Nigerians live below poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>Osibogun, stated this at the MDCAN 2018 Public Lecture and Award, with the theme \u201cPolitics and Health: Implications of Nexus To The Nigerian Citizen,\u201d in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Osibogun, who was the guest speaker at the event said, \u201chealth-related data show that about 70 million Nigerians live below the abject poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe poor are more likely to be sick and when sick, least likely to access health services promptly. The cost of illness is not just the cost of treatment, but includes the cost of treatment-seeking activities such as transportation to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoverty remains a most important determinant of ill-health as it contributes significantly to increased exposure to disease-causing agents and also prevents access to health care services once disease has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in the Human Development Index, the United Nations ranked Nigeria as 187 out of 191 countries, adding that the fall in living standards and relative scarcity of resources have negatively impacted on the delivery of and access to health services by the people.<\/p>\n<p>Poverty<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>AddThis<\/p>\n<p>: <\/p>\n<p>Original Author<\/p>\n<p>: <\/p>\n<p>LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER<\/p>\n<p>Disable advertisements<\/p>\n<p>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief medical director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Public Health Expert, Prof Akin Osibogun, has said that about 70 million Nigerians live below poverty line. Osibogun, stated this at the MDCAN 2018 Public Lecture and Award, with the theme \u201cPolitics and Health: Implications of Nexus To The Nigerian Citizen,\u201d in Abuja. Osibogun, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}