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Less than five percent of the N13.5 trillion combined budgets of the federal and state governments will be spent on public health this year. This is despite the poor infrastructure in the sector and the avowal by the government to discourage medical tourism, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
Official data analysed by Daily Trust shows that the two tiers of governments have budgeted a total of N591.8 billion for health, representing 4.3 percent of their total spending this year.
At least sixty thousand pupils in Lagos State public primary schools are to partake in a de-worming exercise to assist in the healthy development and welfare of children in the state.
Flagging off the exercise yesterday at a ceremony organized by the State’ Ministry of Youth and Social Development, wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode charged parents in the state to encourage hand-washing among their children. She urged them to maintain a clean and healthy environment so as to prevent the children from contracting worm infections.
The Zamfara Government on Sunday said over N200 million worth of drugs were destroyed in a recent fire outbreak at the State Central Medical Store in Samaru area of Gusau.
The state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Sulaiman Gunmi, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau.
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has said that people who sell fake drugs should be killed. Obiano also described the sale of fake drugs as “the worst criminal act to humanity.”
The governor made the comments on Monday, January 23, during an accreditation ceremony in the Agulu area of the state.
Dr Nicholas Baamlong had a narrow miss with Lassa fever virus, a disease that’s killed many and is still killing. His patient was bleeding from orifices, one sure sign of Lassa.
“When we suspected that, immediately we called public health people,” says Baamlong, who heads a committee on control and prevention of infectious diseases as University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. “Before then we had to isolate the patient and do barrier nursing.” That’s caring for a patient but maintaining protective barriers to avoid infection.
Unless the proposed 2017 health budget is amended, millions of Nigerian children will end up dead this year from severe malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases, experts have proclaimed. This is despite president Buhari’s avowed promise that his government will ensure the provision of adequate healthcare delivery to Nigerians.Resident doctors’ strike tops agenda at National Council on Health meeting
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) are set for showdown talk on resident doctors’ strike with the Federal Government.
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the 36 states commissioners of health are meeting doctors as the 59th National Council on Health (NCH) began in Umuahia, Abia State, yesterday. The NCH is the highest decision making body in the health sector.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has directed its members to stop treating and administering medications on Commissioners, Special Advisers and other categories of political appointees in Kogi State until further notice.
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), yesterday besieged the Federal Ministry of Health headquarters at the Federal Secretariat complex, Abuja demanding the resignation of Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire.
The Medicines Patent Pool today announced that it has signed a licence with Johns Hopkins University to facilitate the clinical development of tuberculosis (TB) drug candidate sutezolid. The antibiotic sutezolid has long been considered a promising investigational treatment that, if further developed in combination with other drugs, could be used to more effectively treat both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB in patients.
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The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has directed its members to stop attending to health needs of commissioners , special advisers and other categories of political appointees in Kogi State until further notice.
Dr Magnus Ogaraku, the Chairman of the state chapter of the NMA, announced this at a news conference in Lokoja on Thursday.
Partnership For Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has called on the federal government to as a matter of urgency reconsider its proposed 4.17 per cent budgetary allocation to health sector. PACFaH, a health advocacy project is calling on the government to allocate a minimum of 10 percent of its annual budget to health, noting that the government had not kept its part of the 2001 Abuja declaration which stipulates that a benchmark of 15per cent should be allocated to this all important sector.
The Rivers State Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday decided to settle out -of -court their differences.
The MHWUN internal crisis, which had torn the association into two factions, had persisted after some aggrieved Primary Healthcare workers ignored peace moves and went ahead to initiate litigation at the Industrial Court against the NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba charging him not to re-contest for the NLC’s top position.
Nurses and Midwives in two federal health institutions in Abeokuta, Ogun State– the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro – on Wednesday protested against the decay in the health sector and alleged discrimination against them by the Federal Ministry of Health.
