Impact of climate change on the role of non-governmental organizations in environmental health delivery in south-eastern region of Nigeria

• Main Authors: Jacinta A. Opara, Ozioma C. Azubuike
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PC Technology Center 2016-04-01
• Series: ScienceRise
• Subjects: NGOs; sanitation; water; food; environment; disaster; climate change; Nigeria; health delivery
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/sciencerise/article/view/67435

<p>Climate change remains a serious problem to most rural settlement in Nigeria. Individuals are faced with a wide range of health problems. These problems include high risk of communicable and non-communicable diseases, an outbreak of epidemics, and scarcity of water. This study investigated the impact of climate change on health delivery services by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to the different Local Government Areas (LGA) of the five the States in the South -Eastern Region in Nigeria: Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu were selected and three communities from each was sampled using stratified random sampling technique. The result revealed that most NGO health workers could not penetrate into most of the rural areas to deliver aids to the victims</p>