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The Federal Government yesterday said it would set up cancer care centres in its tertiary institutions to reverse the rising trend of medical tourism. It is therefore seeking the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other development partners to actualise the plan.Director says universal health coverage attainable through primary healthcare
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, has said that Nigeria would attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) using Primary Health Care as a tool.
Moeti said this at a press briefing organised by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, at the end of the visit of the WHO director to Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it would increase the budgetary allocation to the health sector in the 2017 fiscal year to address some of the challenges facing it.
Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in the FCT, Dr Fatima Mairami, says tackling corruption that funnelled public funds into private pockets will free up more funds to make universal health care accessible to Nigerians.
The health sector is one area in the country where excellence is hardly celebrated, but the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award is changing the narrative through recognition of excellent hard work among the players in the industry. Martins Ifijeh writes
Health experts have recently emphasized the benefits of Family Planning (FP) to the quality of maternal health and mortality in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Health, and Information and Culture, to deepen their collaboration with state governments to ensure that Nigeria is finally certified polio free by 2017.
This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist fromAhmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
The Federal Government yesterday unveiled a health intervention programme that would provide free surgery to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The programme, which will start on July 18 in 46 health facilities across Nigeria, will also extend free breast and cervical cancer tests to 18,000 Nigerians as well as free diabetes and hypertension tests to 500,000 others.
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The Federal Government has said that Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five children and 145 women of child-bearing age to severe and acute malnutrition and iron deficiency respectively daily.
The Lagos State Government on Friday inaugurated aCritical Care Unit (CCU) at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja as part of its efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the state.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, said the facility would help to discourage Nigerians from going abroad to seek medical care.
Physiotherapist laments low recognition, poor remuneration for profession
A Physiotherapist, Professor Rufus Adedoyin, on Sunday said physiotherapists were still unrecognised in the medical profession, in spite of the major role they played in the overall wellbeing of individuals.
Adedoyin, the Chairman, Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy Cardiopulmonary Specialty Group, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Health professionals and specialists in various medical fields are set to brainstorm in a conference on curbing Nigeria’s high Medical tourism, one of vexatious issues in Nigeria’s health sector.
In a statement made available to newsmen, a neurosurgeon and advocate for reversing medical tourism in Nigeria, Dr Biodun Ogungbo, said the theme of the conference coming up at the Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, 20th July, 2016, is “Reversing Medical Tourism: strengthening local capabilities, and encouraging foreign collaborations”.
