HealthGrid
Every healthcare facility in the country — scraped, cleaned, and map-ready
36 states covered · Multiple source registries unified · Full geocoding pipeline delivered
The Problem
The client needed a single, reliable dataset of every healthcare facility in Nigeria — public and private, primary through tertiary. No such dataset existed in usable form. Official registries were fragmented across 36 state health agencies: some in PDF, some on outdated web portals, none geocoded, and none talking to each other.
What We Built
We built a scraping and ingestion pipeline that pulled from every available official source — federal and state health ministry portals, the NHIA registry, and supplementary public data sources. Records were cleaned, deduplicated using facility name and address fuzzy matching, geocoded via the Google Maps Geocoding API, and structured into a standardised schema with facility type, ownership tier, service level, and coordinates — ready for direct map layer integration.
The Outcome
Delivered a clean, geocoded, map-ready dataset covering healthcare facilities across all 36 states — ready for integration into a national health access platform
What We Learned
Government data in Nigeria lives in unexpected places, and often in formats that were never meant to be processed programmatically. We spent as much time on source discovery as on the pipeline itself. A well-documented source map turned out to be as valuable as the data it pointed to.