Geospatial Mapping of Health Facilities in Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe State, Nigeria

This paper is aimed at mapping healthcare facilities in the Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe State. Geospatial mapping of health care facilities was achieved by taking the geographic coordinates of all the healthcare facilities in the Local Government using the Global Positioning System Garmin GPS map 76CS receiver. The data were analyzed using ArcGIS 10.8 version software. The study identified primary and secondary health care facilities without any tertiary health care facility and also without a single private hospital or clinic across the entire eleven 11 political wards of Nangere Local Government Area. The findings revealed that 46 healthcare facilities were distributed across the eleven 11 political wards in the Local Government Area. The primary health care facilities PHC constituted 98 45 while the secondary Health Care facilities SHC constituted 2 1 . The average nearest neighbor summary for the study area shows the significant level and the critical level that indicates a random distribution pattern of health care facilities in the area, however, it was unevenly distributed given the concentration of health care facilities in Dazigau, Degubi, Darin, Pakarau, and Tikau while other wards were inadequately served. However, both the primary and secondary health care facilities were government owned, the study concluded that there were inequalities in the spatial distribution of health care facilities in the Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe state, thus this disparity in the distribution of health facilities has generated different accessibility level to health care facilities in the LGA, it, therefore, recommends that Government and the private organization should provide health care facilities in the wards that do not have enough health care facilities. This will further improve access to Health Care facilities in the study area. Ibrahim Abubakar Audu | Tijjani Bukar Lawan "Geospatial Mapping of Health Facilities in Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe State, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd42527.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comother-scientific-research-area/other/42527/geospatial-mapping-of-health-facilities-in-nangere-local-government-area-of-yobe-state-nigeria/ibrahim-abubakar-audu