One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.

According to the World Health Organisation, 31% of the remaining, intact hospitals, of which there are 481, are not functioning mostly due to the insecurity caused by the militant group Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria’s north east.

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