Referrals of complicated labors from homes to the PHC facilities were not likely to be significant as the PHC clinics provided only day-time services and were not designed to provide comprehensive emergency obstetric services.
Due to poor funding, only a few PHC centers are functional but these are without essential drugs and equipment, are poorly staffed and provide only day-time services as it requires a minimum of three nurses to provide 24 h services in a PHC facility [ 10, 26].
They were employed for on-call duty but also for day-time service.
Day-time service in Nigeria means that the clinics are open for eight hours (8 am-4 pm) from Mondays to Fridays.
Moreover, Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) services were also offered along with comprehensive antenatal care and immunization services in day time, up till 1 pm only.
Although there are other healthcare facilities surrounding the concentrated areas of street-dwellers, all are, however, involved in providing services during the day time when the street-dwellers remain outside for searching of food for them.
In some cities and municipalities there are also day-time EPHC services.
There will be a funeral service Saturday, time pending, at Trinity Reformed Church, North Plainfield.
Friends may call at the Daigle & Nadeau Funeral Home, Fort Kent, 10 AM Saturday until time of services.
Through another $100,000 grant in September we funded the development of SMARTmuni (System Management Administered in Real Time), an iPad-based software application designed to improve the day-to-day operations and on-time service of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Christina Lamb, foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, received an OBE for services to journalism.
