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Nigeria has inaugurated the technical and steering committees to drive the process of improving quality healthcare for mothers, newborn and children. The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, inaugurated the steering and technical committees in Abuja.
The inauguration of the committees was in direct response for the admission of Nigeria into the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) network on quality healthcare for mothers, newborns and children.
NAFDAC seizes fruit juice, codeine syrups, others worth N 2.5 million in Sokoto
The National Agency For Food And Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has seized assorted imported fruit juice, codeine-containing substances and other unwholesome regulated products worth over N2.5million in Sokoto State.
The state Coordinator of the agency, Hamis Yahaya, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Sokoto on Wednesday.
Yesterday the National Assembly commenced a public hearing on the proposed 2017 budget submitted to the legislature by President Muhammadu Buhar. It is important for the House to increase the proposed 2017 health budget especially in the areas of family health. 
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has urged the Nigerian Association of Nephrology to stop referring renal patients for transplant surgery abroad. Adewole said this at the opening of the 29th annual scientific conference and general meeting of NAN at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife, Osun State on Monday.
Primary health care workers in Rivers State have withdrawn a case they filed six months ago against the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over alleged neglect of welfare in the application of a harmonized salary scale for health care workforce.
The Nasarawa State Government has said that no fewer than eight people have so far died following the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. The Director of Public Health in the state’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu, made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lafia.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Monday canvassed patronage for Nigerian doctors, declaring their services better than their counterparts abroad.
Adewole said this during the commissioning of the Maternity and Neonatal Wards and Central Pharmacy Building at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife in Osun.
The Federal Executive Council has approved a new National Health Policy aimed at promoting the health of Nigerians to accelerate socio-economic development in the country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the FEC meeting, which was presided by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, sacked the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Theophilus Odagme. The news of Odagme’s sacking was contained in a statement issued by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Matters, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Wednesday said it had been established that the experiment carried out by a professor of veterinary medicine and clinical virology was illegal.More...
Drug Insecurity Persists as Customs Implements 20% Duty on Imported Medicines
Most Nigerians may not be able to afford even essential medicines as the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) begins the implementation of 20 per cent duty on imported pharmaceutical products.
Workers of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, Kaduna State, on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest demanding for improved condition of service.
The aggrieved workers, acting under the umbrella of Joint Consultative Forum (JCF), protested against what they alleged as anomalies in the 2016 promotion and non-payment of accumulated arrears of entitlements.
Dr Clement Edet, Director, Planning and Statistics, Rivers Primary Healthcare Management Board says the state has adequate Primary HealthCare centres (PHC), but lacked facilities.
Edet disclosed this in Port Harcourt on Wednesday at a training workshop on “Healthcare financing.”
Health workers under the aegis of the National Union of Allied Health Professionals took to the streets, in Abuja, on Tuesday, to protest what they described as rot in the health sector.
Specifically, the workers condemned the overseas medical trips by senior citizens of the country, saying if the health sector was running properly, Nigerian elite would not need to travel abroad for treatment.
