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The fast-growing population in Taraba State is overstretching the ill-equipped primary healthcare centres, leaving poor residents, especially those in rural areas to resort to herbal medicine , JUSTIN TYOPUUSU writes It has been more than four months since Terver Yaornyi lost his loving wife, but the circumstances surrounding her death have remained fresh and horrifying in his memory. “More than three months after I lost my wife who died during labour, I am still traumatised. My wife started labour around 11 pm on January 3, 2024, and because there is currently a ban on the use of motorcycles.

At that time, there was no vehicle around to convey her to Peva, the nearby town in the Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, so I resorted to conveying her in a wheelbarrow. “Midway into the journey which is approximately 35 kilometres, my wife breathed her last. She died while trying to bring life into the world,” Yaornyi told Saturday PUNCH as he sobbed.



The widower’s story is similar to that of a widow, Mrs Shiminenge Pinga, whose daughter, Judith Iyorpenda, died at a local private hospital near Adu village, in the Chanchanji district of Takum Local Government Area in an attempt to have her twins delivered. “My daughter is gone! She had been having miscarriages, so she decided to come and stay with me pending when she had her babies, but now she is no more. “She had successfully had the first baby, but the second baby could not come out.

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