As the nurse strapped the cuff around her arm, Faith Bako sat still, feeling the pressure build up slowly. After a few seconds, the blood pressure monitor blinked and showed 180 over 110.
At first, the numbers meant little to her; it was the nurse’s pause, not the beeping machine, that told her something was wrong.
After weeks of feeling light-headed, the 31-year-old had visited the hospital for a check-up. Living in Masaka, a town in Nasarawa State, Ms Bako spends nearly…
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