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Zouera Youssoufou, Aliko Dangote Foundation’s Managing Director and CEO, has observed that Nigeria’s high malnutrition rate is undermining progress towards improving child health and survival and putting the brakes on economic development. By investing in nutrition, Youssoufou said the foundation aim to directly improve the lives of Nigerian families and to empower citizens to reach their full potential.
Youssoufou was commenting on the USD100 million pledge by the foundation to tackle malnutrition in Nigeria that was announced at the Global Nutrition Summit 2017 held in Milan, Italy.
About 100 Nigerian children with cleft lips and palate congenital deformity will over the next 12 months get free medical correction surgery at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Charles Ononiwu, a consultant facial surgeon and Coordinator of the national Hospital Cleft Care Team announced this at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, as part of the 2017 Cleft Week.
Govs Raise The Alarm Over High Maternal, Mortality Rate In Nigeria
The 36 states governors have raised the alarm over the high maternal and mortality rate in the country. Lamenting the situation where Nigeria is ranked as the second highest in the world for both maternal and under 5 mortality in the world, they described the situation as unacceptable.
Recall that a United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) report revealed that 2,300 children below five years of age and 145 child-bearing women die every day in Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof Moji Christiana Adeyeye, as the new Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State Chapter on Thursday said the exodus of doctors from Nigeria had reached an alarming proportion and called for improved health sector funding to discourage it.
The Chairman, Dr Olumuyiwa Odusote, said in Lagos that more than 40,000 of the 75,000 registered Nigerian doctors, were practising abroad while 70 per cent in the country were thinking of picking jobs outside.
Maternal mortality: Ambode’s wife begs mothers to use govt health facilities
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, has again called on expectant mothers in the state, to utilise Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and skilled birth attendants, to reduce the incidence of maternal and infant mortality. She gave the charge on Tuesday at a town hall meeting on reduction of maternal and child mortality, in Epe local government, organized by the State’s Ministry of Health. Mrs. Ambode noted that refusal by expectant mothers for various reasons to access obstetric services, was a major contributor to the maternal mortality rate in the State. According to her, “Almost every minute, somewhere in a corner of the world, a woman dies as a result of complications during pregnancy and childbirth. For every woman that dies, about twenty others survive but suffer from serious diseases, disability or physical damage, caused by these complications.
Oyo government presents free medical check-up to reduce untimely death among civil servants
IT is widely acknowledged that a healthy mind is a productive mind. In this connection, the ongoing free medical check-up for civil and public servants in Oyo State is most commendable, especially considering the rampant cases of sudden deaths, most of which result from preventable and manageable ailments.
The exercise is, therefore, essential, as it will culminate in preventing sudden deaths and enhancing healthy living among the workforce in the state. This initiative by the present administration in Oyo State will ultimately help to check ailments such as hypertension, stroke and cardiac arrest among public and civil servants in the state.
‘Senate to pass bill establishing Nigeria disease centre before end of 2017’
A bill for an Act to establish the National Centre for Disease and Control, NCDC, will be passed by the National Assembly before the end of the year, the Chairman, Senate committee on primary health care and communicable diseases, Mao Ohuabunwa, has said.
The senator said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the launch of the NCDC Strategy and Implementation Plan (2017-2021).
Be sincere in declaring your health status – Osun NYSC coordinator tells corps members
Ahead of the orientation exercise for Batch ‘B’ corps members, slated for November 21, 2017, the Osun State Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps,(NYSC) Mr Emmanuel Attah has called on prospective corps members to be truthful in declaring their health status.
This according to him would help in no small way in giving clear direction to medical personnel on necessary attention individual corps member requires in order to avert emergencies.
Bauchi State Government will spend N16.8 million on the 2017 second round of Maternal Neonatal Child Health Week (MNCH). Executive Chairman of Bauchi State Primary HealthCare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Pharmacist Adamu Gamawa disclosed this while briefing journalists in Bauchi Tuesday.
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The Nigerian Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday decried the way Nigerian doctors were leaving the nation in droves saying the government now has an opportunity to bring back the doctors.
Mr. Osinbajo, who spoke at the 60th-anniversary celebration of the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, said that the dismal levels of job satisfaction caused by poor healthcare system in Nigeria were responsible for the “alarming” brain drain in the country’s health sector.
The West Africa Polytechnic/Monotechnic Students Union (WAPSU) and the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) have urged the Federal Government to shut down illegal and unqualified Schools and Colleges of Health Technology.
The unions made the call in a joint statement signed by Mr Salahudeen Lukman, Regional President, WAPSU, and Comrade. Olugbode Hameed, NAPS National Public Relations Officer, on Friday in Abuja.
As the Lagos State Government prepares to roll out its State Health Insurance Scheme, PharmAccess Foundation has trained health workers drawn from the state’s Ministry of Health and Agencies as State Quality Champions. The week- long training was to support improvement efforts of healthcare facilities in the state.2018 Budget: PHC Practitioners Decry Poor Allocation, Neglect of Health Sector
The Primary Health Care (PHC) Practitioners in the country have described as abysmal the 2018 budgetary allocation of 3.6 per cent to the health sector. To this end, the professionals under the National Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria (NACHPN), warned that the Ministry of Health’s Community Health Influencers, Promoters and Services (CHIPS) would become a pipe dream with such a poor funding.
The National President of NACHPN, Comrade Okechukwu Akor, stated this recently in Abuja at a press conference tagged: ‘The 2018 Budget Proposal and the Health Sector- Consolidation or Consolation?’ organised in collaboration with the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH).
