UNITED NATIONS, Rabi'I 15, 1438, Dec 14, 2016, SPA-- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that a third of 743 health facilities have been destroyed in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the area worst hit in a seven-year insurgency by Boko Haram. The WHO said that it had worked with Borno’s health ministry to gather information about medical services available there. Of 743 health facilities, the agency said that 35 percent had been completely destroyed, another 29 percent partially destroyed, and 34 percent remained intact. WHO representative for Nigeria Wondi Alemu said that “high security, difficult terrain, and lack of health workers, medicines, equipment, and basic amenities such as safe water” made it hard for people to access healthcare. The United Nations has doubled its humanitarian funding appeal for northeast Nigeria to $1 billion in 2017 in an attempt to reach almost 7 million people in the region who it said need life-saving help. --SPA 21:44 LOCAL TIME 18:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w290801