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Lagos has recorded a drop in HIV/AIDS prevalence, the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Oluseyi Temowo, has said. He stated this at the World AIDS Day, which had as theme: Right to health: Making it happen.
He said: “We know that there is a drop of 1.7 percent, and the screening done among communities the prevalence rate is 0.3 percent, whereby 576, 406 were screened at different health facilities, and 29, 010 were screened at communities. ‘’The figure on positive expectant mothers at antenatal in 2014 is four percent but now, we have 1.4 percent.’’
Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Oyo State chapter and the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Teaching Hospital chapter have rejected the redeployment of 55 resident doctors from the teaching hospital, Ogbomoso to the Oyo state Ministry of Health .
The unions in a statement on the redeployment asked the LAUTECH management to reverse the decision within 21 days or face the wrath of the members. According to them, the action is an “aberration and deliberate plan to rob the good people of Oyo State of specialised healthcare.”
Death rates for patients undergoing surgery in Africa are double the global average even though they tend to be younger, scientists said, adding that many deaths were likely preventable.
According to a study published in the Lancet medical journal, scientists said contributory factors include few specialists, poor hospital infrastructure and a lack of post-operative monitoring.
Australia Health Minister, Greg Hunt, on Thursday said Australia would export medicinal cannabis to other countries after the government approved cannabis exports, the spokesman said.
“The move will bolster Australia’s developing domestic market and help international patients, all while trading on the Pacific country’s reputation for clean and green agriculture.
“Our goal is very clear, to give Australian farmers and manufacturers the best shot at being the world’s number one exporter of medicinal cannabis.
Authorities in Zambia will by Monday commence an oral cholera vaccination exercise as part of efforts to tackle the waterborne disease which has broken out especially in Lusaka, the country’s capital.
Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya said on Thursday that the ministry was working closely with the UN and families in the country for the exercise in which 4 million people have been targeted.
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that approximately 20,210 babies were born in Nigerian on the New Year’s Day. The births, represented third largest population of newborns in the world on Jan. 1, 2018.
UNICEF also said nearly 386,000 babies would be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, representing some 90 per cent in less developed regions. The agency reported that Kiribati’s Christmas Island in the Pacific would most likely welcome 2018’s first baby while the U.S., its last.
Mr Obinna Emenaka, member representing Anambra East Constituency in the State House of Assembly, has called on government at levels to double efforts at combating the production, sale and circulation of fake and adulterated drugs in the country.
Making the call on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka, the assemblyman said that the war must be won to save lives.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Primary Health Care Development Board, says plans have been concluded to immunise children against measles in February across the territory. The Acting Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Mathew Ashikeni, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
Ashikeni explained that children between the ages of nine and five years would be vaccinated when the exercise commence in February 8 to February 13.
In the last week of 2017, Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the country’s Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017. The action followed the passage of the Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims of Gunshots Bill by the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
The bill was not widely noticed probably because many Nigerians were already on break and it was signed along with five other Acts.
To boost the delivery of qualitative healthcare in Lagos state’s general and teaching hospitals, Lagos State Government has procured N2.5 billion health equipment. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, disclosed this in a statement issued to journalists on the ongoing efforts of the state to improve access and quality healthcare in its secondary and tertiary health facilities.
He said the equipment, which include General Out-Patient Department (OPD) equipment, Anaesthetic equipment, Theatre equipment and Laboratory equipment will apart from aiding the delivery of qualitative health services also help enhance provision of qualitative care comparable to the ones available in developed countries.
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Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to help Nigeria repay $76 million polio facility
Nigeria has authorised Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to start the repayment of $76 million polio eradication facility to Japan. The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when she received a delegation of Japanese House of Councillors Parliamentarians.
She said that the delegates were in Nigeria to assess the level of usage of Overseas Development Assistance (ODAs) extended to Nigeria since 2014.
A yellow fever outbreak is currently ongoing in Nigeria with nine people confirmed dead from the disease, a report has said.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, in its situation report on yellow fever in the country released for the first epidemiological week in 2018 said the ailment has so far been confirmed in 12 local government areas across seven states.
We are Licenced, Eligible to Practice in Nigeria and Other Countries – Foreign Trained Doctors
Doctors under the umbrella of Foreign Trained Doctors, FTDs have said that licence were specially given to them upon completion of their programme abroad to enable them practice in Nigeria and in other countries. The doctors said contrary to Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, Registrar, Medical Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN who claimed that only 8 out of 695 doctors were given licence where they studied; said that licence from countries of graduation was one of the criteria for their registration for MDCN programme.
Compulsory Treatment Of Gunshot Victims, Six Other Bills Signed Into Law By President Buhari
The bills are Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment) Amendment Act, 2017, Federal Capital Territory Water Board (Establishment) Act, 2017, National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (Establishment) Act, 2017, Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017, Anti-Torture Act, 2017 and Federal Capital Appropriation Act 2017.
