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The Abia State Ministry of Health, through the Health Management Board,
is responsible for healthcare. The healthcare system comprises twelve
general hospitals, two specialist hospitals, one psychiatric hospital,
two dental centers two schools of nursing, three schools of midwifery,
one school of psychiatry, one school of health technology, sixty-three
health centres, fifteen maternities, thirty-two dispensaries, six
sub-dispensaries, four destitute homes, one remand home and three homes
for the care of the handicapped.
The State Government, together with
the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation (WHO), have
also established Comprehensive Primary Health Care Units in some
selected rural areas which cater for child care, pre and ante-natal
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