page_title: New Karshi
section_title: Health facility
hierarchical_section_title: New Karshi / Social Amenities / Health facility
caption_attribution_description: English: MDG Primary Health Care Clinic, New Karshi
context_page_description: New Karshi is a town in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria, founded in the 1980s by Muhammadu Bako II. It is a semi-autonomous local government created out of Karu LGA as Karshi Development area with the administrative secretariat in Uke. Karshi has a local government chairman as its administrative head and a seat in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly. Emir of Karshi Emirate, Alhaji Muhammadu Sani Bako III, a first class chief is the traditional head of New Karshi. It has a population of about 30,000 people. The predominate tribes are Gwandara, Gbagyi, Gade, Bassa and Hausa.
  New Karshi is 30 kilometers or about 50 minutes drive to Abuja city center on a traffic free period and 25 kilometers or 35 minutes drive to Keffi. It is bounded by Nasarawa Local Government to the South, Keffi Local Government to the East, the city of Abuja to the West.
context_section_description: The main health care center in Karshi town is Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Primary Health Care clinic built in 2013 to take care of health needs of the community especially women and children with  wards designated for them. Pregnant women attend antenatal classes there. Cases that cannot be handled at the MDGs clinic are often referred to Uke general hospital about 7 kilometers or 10 minutes drive from Karshi. The Uke general hospital has a number of doctors and medical and laboratory equipment common in most general hospitals in Nigeria. The hospital is stocked with Petroleum Trust Development Funds (PTDF) funded drugs that make treatment cheap and affordable. Another reference hospital to the MDGs clinic is Federal Medical Center, Keffi which is 26 kilometers or about forty minutes drive. Old Karshi general hospital in Abuja is 10 kilometers or 7 minutes drive from New Karshi.
caption: MDG primary health care center, New Karshi, Nasarawa State
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