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NAFDAC Set to Blacklist Countries with Substandard Products in Nigeria
The Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has sent a warning signal to all importers of substandard foods and drugs related products into the country, saying the agency will not allow the country to be a dumping ground for such products.
Prof. Adeyeye, who spoke during a Breakfast Meeting organised by the American Business Council, noted that it will no longer be business as usual for all foreign countries, especially the Asian countries, whose inferior and adulterated drugs and foods have flooded the Nigerian markets hitherto, adding that the agency will soon commence prosecuting any nation found culprit of this act.
A Medical Oncologist, Dr Bisi Ademuyiwa, has said that about 27,000 to 30,000 women are diagnosed of breast cancer annually in Nigeria. She also said about half of these women die every year while informing that breast cancer remains the most common causes of female cancer in the world.
Dr. Ademuuyiwa, who stated this at the Breast Cancer Seminar, organized by AXA Mansard/AWEP in partnership with Alliance Hospital in Abuja, noted that while about 80 per cent of women diagnosed of breast cancer survive in the developed world, it is almost a death sentence in developing countries, including Nigeria.
Nigeria is suffering its worst outbreak of Lassa fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, as local health officials said 72 people had died since the start of this year.
“Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has reached record highs, with 317 laboratory confirmed cases,” the WHO said in a statement, quoting figures from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The Federal Government has inaugurated a National Steering Committee on Basic Health Care Provision Fund to advocate for more resources and ensure smooth operation of the fund. Former President Goodluck Jonathan signed the National Health Act (2014) which stipulates that one per cent of consolidated fund be set aside for health care provision.
Mrs Boade Akinola, Director of Media and Public Relations of the Ministry of Health, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. She said Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, inaugurated and chaired the committee.
The President of the Senate Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, met with Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates and African Business Mogul, Alh. Aliko Dangote to proffer solutions to financing healthcare in Nigeria. Saraki who was accompanied by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, had the breakfast with the business magnates and philanthropists at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.
Top on the agenda of the meeting were: Polio eradication, sustainable health financing and primary health care strengthening.
As the world marks the 2018 World Oral Health Day, Dr Seye Logede, Vice-Chairman, Dental Association of Nigeria, Abuja Chapter, says the general attitude of Nigerians to oral health has significantly improved unlike in times past.
Logede who is a Principal Dental Officer in the Oral Diagnosis Unit of the National Hospital, Abuja, told our correspondent on Tuesday in Abuja that the use of social media contributed to the success recorded.
A study has shown that chemicals found in a variety of routinely used consumer products may be contributing to the substantial drop in sperm counts and sperm quality among men in recent decades. The study found the effect of chemicals that disrupt the body’s hormones, called endocrine-disrupting chemicals, may extend beyond more than one generation.
The research results will be presented on Monday at “ENDO 2018”, the 100th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in Chicago.
Following the abduction of two doctors by herdsmen on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the National Association of Resident Doctors has faulted the delay in the arrest of the kidnappers saying the unimpressive response of the police portends danger for other medical practitioners across the country. Armed herdsmen.
The Edo State Government has said that it is planning to construct 500 primary health care centres in the state in order to promote the implementation of the Compulsory Health Insurance Scheme.
TO raise awareness on proper management of autism, Neuro-development disorders professionals have inaugurated a Centre for Autism and Neuro-developmental Disorders (CAND-Do).
The centre, which is at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, is focus driven and positioned to address, research, learning and service needs of persons and caregivers of those living with autism and neuro-developmental disorders.
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A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called on stakeholders in the health sector to create more awareness on endometriosis insisting that 100,000 cases of the disease are recorded annually in Nigeria.
The nation may soon witness yet another strike action from the Medical and Health Workers Union, the national president of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Joy Josiah has said. According to him, this was part of the unanimous agreement reached by the union at the end of its meeting held at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), in Lagos.
He said that their request from Federal Government for improved pay and payment of some long overdue allowances must be adhered to, in same manner it was done for counterparts in the core medical unit.
The Saudi Garman Hospital, Dubai, is set to partner with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Nigeria to train doctors on cancer treatment and as well attend to about 200 cancer patients. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the hospitals’ Business Development Executive, Philip Veliyath, said they are setting up a medical camp to enable them carry out cancer screening and treat some of the cases as most of them can actually be treated locally without necessarily travelling abroad.
“Our plans for Nigeria this year is to continue with the medical camp like year. The aim of the medical camp is to be able to attend to and treat most of the cancer cases because some patients can be treated here in Nigeria without travelling abroad. 60-70 per cent of the cases can be treated locally.
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, who is the new UNAIDS Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and the Promotion of Treatment for Children Living with HIV in Nigeria, has vowed to ensure that no child is born with HIV in the country by 2020. In a statement delivered by NACA, Mrs Buhari, upon commencement of her new role, said “It is with a great sense of responsibility and humility that I accept the honour to serve as a UNAIDS Special Ambassador.
I am looking forward to using my voice to help, to ensure that no child is born with HIV in the country by 2020.” Nigeria, according to a recent report, has one of the highest rates of new HIV infections among children in the world.
