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Reps summon Minister of Health and others over plastic packaging of food and drinks
The House of Representatives has summoned Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health and Yetunde Oni, the Acting Director-General of NAFDAC (National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control) to appear before it.
This summon is in order for the duo to give an explanation on the effect of plastic containers for the packaging of food and drinks. The summon was due to the motion moved by Hon. Sergius Ogun on the need to regulate the use of Bisphenol “A” plastics in the production of bottled water.
Global Health Leaders has reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate polio and provide $1.2 billion to finance efforts to end the disease. A statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja by Mr Geoffrey Njoku, UNICEF Communication Specialist, said the leaders gave the assurance at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta.
The leaders included UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake; Dr Anne Schuchat, Acting Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan.
A disgraced doctor who moonlighted on paid sick leave was today jailed after failing to pay back nearly £100,000 he fiddled from the NHS. Gynaecologist Dr Anthony Madu, 46, secretly carried out well-paid locum work at hospitals while getting sick pay from another hospital. Madu - who was described in court as 'irresponsible and dishonest' - sent £95,000 to a Nigerian bank account.
He nearly collapsed when the news got to him. Still reeling in pains from events of previous days, it wasn’t the type of announcement he wanted to hear.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have commended the 1.2 billion dollars funding initiative to eradicate polio disease in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, and WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, gave the commendations as global health leaders reaffirmed their commitment to fund the eradication of polio in the countries.
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has recommended 223 health facilities for the take-off of Kano State Contributory Healthcare Scheme (KSCHS). The NHIS’s Zonal Coordinator in-charge of Northwest “B”, Alhaji Shu’aibu Ahmed Indabawa, made the disclosure in Kano on Tuesday at a sensitization workshop organized for Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).
The Federal Government and the Health Maintenance Organisations, on Wednesday, traded blame over the alleged “fraud” in the utilisation of the N381bn spent on the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme since inception in 2005.
The blame game took place before the House of Representatives Committee on Health Services which conducted a public hearing on the ‘Compliance Rate of HMOs to the NHIS Contributions and Utilisation of Funds by Healthcare Providers and Inhuman Treatment of Enrolees’.
No fewer than five people have reportedly been infected with the deadly Lassa fever in Ondo State. According to the Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Taye Oni, who spoke with journalists in Akure on Tuesday, the disease had affected two people in Owo Local Government and two people in Akoko North-West Local Government.
Similarly, a student of the Achievers University in Owo has also contracted the disease. Oni said, “Of the cases recorded by the state government, we have a 56-year-old male, a 47- year-old female and another two people in Akoko South-West. This is not the usual time it occurs in Ondo State. It usually occurs during the dry season but limited to Owo and Ose local governments.
The Anambra Government on Monday confirmed that a nursing student was killed by Lassa Fever, while 65 others were being monitored. Dr Emmanuel Okafor, the Director of Public Health, State Ministry of Health, told newsmen in Awka that the deceased (name withheld) was a student in one private nursing school in Nkpor, Idemili North.
Okafor said that the lady was admitted at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, on June 11.
Democratisation of CMD’s appointment responsible poor health management ―NMA President
THE President of the Nigeria Medical Association, Prof Mike Ogirimma, on Tuesday decried the adoption of a democratised procedure for the appointment of Chief Medical Directors in Nigeria teaching hospitals, contending the development was responsible for the poor performance of the health sector.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday stressed the need for adolescent girls to avoid the use of herbs during menstrual pain. Prof. Nkadi Onyegbegbu, the National Coordinator of UNICEF Wash In Schools For Girls Project (Wins 4 Girls) in Nigeria, said this at a 4-day Menstrual Hygiene Management Workshop organised for adolescent public school girls in Iragbiji, Osun.
Onyegbegbu said many adolescent girls in the country are becoming victims of kidney problem due to intake of herbs during menstrual pain.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN), we want to thank all the participants who made time to be at our stakeholder consultations on the role of the private sector in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) of the Government of Nigeria on 23rd of June at the Renaissance Hotel, Lagos.
We want to thank all our financial members, our partners and event sponsors the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Kainosedge Consults for a great outing.
Unitaid is to roll out a generic version of the latest AIDS drug that can improve and prolong the lives of tens of thousands of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments in Nigeria.
Unitaid, a global health initiative said a generic of Dolutegravir (DTG), first approved in the U.S. in 2013, is being given to 20,000 patients in Kenya before being rolled out in Nigeria and Uganda later in the year.
NHIS, NPHCDA Labour to petition EFCC over ‘corruption’ in health ministry
Labour leaders in the agencies under the ministry of health have disclosed plans to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged corruption.
The agencies include the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).The decision was sequel to a resolution by the House of Representatives Committee on Health Services to either suspend the NHIS and amend the act setting up the scheme.
