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Physical Exercises, Mental Health go Hand in Hand, Says Physiotherapists
Some physiotherapists on Monday in Lagos said that physical exercise of any sort was vital for good mental health, especially in the treatment of depression. The experts said that physiotherapy was also important in the well-being of people suffering long-term health issues.
Unless there is urgent intervention, the future of Nigerian children is threatened following several reports showing worsening nutritional status of children in the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed says 20 million children are being considered for the Integrated Birth Registration uptake approach.
WHO, FG Mull Partnership With Private Sector On TB Control In Nigeria
In a bid to end the scourge of Tuberculosis (TB) reportedly killing 18 Nigerians every hour, a national summit organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos State Ministry of Health is considering forming a formidable partnership with private sector in the country to nip the problem in the bud.Again, minister outlines challenges facing routine immunisation in Nigeria
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The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has identified data falsification, low accountability, poor coordination, and weak service delivery as part of the challenges affecting effective routine immunization (RI) in Nigeria.
The minister, speaking at the 68th meeting of the World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Africa in Dakar, Senegal, assured the meeting of Nigeria’s commitment to immunization as a way of saving lives and improving health outcomes.
In a press statement signed by the director, media and public relations, Boade Akinola on Tuesday, the minister joined other members of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) to share the challenges and successes achieved in routine immunization programmes on the continent.
This is with the aim to reviews strategies for improvement of RI in the continent, the release noted.
Mr Adewole, a professor of obstetrics, said the recently conducted Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), in Nigeria, gave a clear picture of the immunization status as against the administrative data available in the country.
He said this has made the government declare a Public Health Emergency on immunization to enable the country to close all identified gaps.
According to Mr Adewole, the government came up with several initiatives to address some of the challenges; such as the establishment of National Emergency Routine Immunization Centre (NERIC), which primarily aims to revamp the country’s RI programme.
The minister, while identifying the major challenges as poor coordination, accountability, weak service delivery, and inaccurate data among others said in addressing the issues, the country has now developed zero tolerance for data falsification.
“NERIC has developed strong coordination and accountability structure with rewards and sanction for actors at the federal, state and local governments levels.
They also conduct daily progress monitoring meeting so as to identify gaps and deal with them appropriately,” he added.
Mr Adewole also noted that GAVI’s decision to extend the nation’s transition period to 10 years as against the earlier five years deadline has helped the country in mapping out funding plans to ensure sustainability after the withdrawal of GAVI’s support for immunization in Nigeria.
According to him, the country has a target of 80 percent immunization coverage. He also assured that the government would keep faith in GAVI and all other development partners. Other African countries also shared ideas and challenges similar to Nigeria.
The meeting agreed on the need to adopt measures of doing things differently to achieve better outcomes, increase the political commitment of state actors especially in the area of strong leadership and transparency.
They also agreed to ensure community and group participation which targets women and youth, have a strong data integrity regime and commitment to right recruitments.
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The Chief Medical Officer, Eko Hospital, Dr Adegbite Ogunrokun, has stressed the need for hospitals to embrace the automated service delivery in order to reduce the length of time that patients have to wait to be treated. Ogunrokun made the statement on Thursday at a briefing organized in Lagos by the management team of Eko Corp Plc as it completes the first phase of its project in the hospital.
He said the lack of automation in healthcare delivery had been a major problem in the hospital and the healthcare industry in Nigeria because most patients always complained of waiting for a long time before seeing a doctor or receiving treatment.
Authorities on Sunday confirmed 15 deaths due to what an official suspected to be cases of gastroenteritis in Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Transition Committee Chairman of the council, Alhaji Yusuf Radda, made this known to newsmen through his Information Officer, Mannir Idris in Charanchi.
He said that the areas affected by the outbreak were Charanchi town, Malali, and Banye villages.
The Kwara State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (KWASACA) has recorded no fewer than 432 children infected with HIV and AIDS between January and June in Kwara. The Coordinator of KWASACA, Dr Seleem Alabi, disclosed this at the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Kwara Chapter Week in Ilorin on Wednesday.
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with UNICEF has concluded plans to establish 90 theatre groups in three states to mobilize and support communities to access health care services for the healthy development of children.
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, on Monday urged Nigeria to continue to invest in building resilient health systems as this will safeguard citizens and act as a strategy to bolster economic transformation in the nation.
According to a statement made available by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Mr Symington made this call during a courtesy visit to the agency’s office in Abuja.
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The Nigerian government plans to equip primary healthcare centres across the country to screen and treat diabetes and hypertension. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, made this plan known on Monday while declaring open the 4th Pan- African Diabetic Foot Study Group Conference and the Advance Course on Diabetic Foot/Podiatry in Abuja.
According to a statement on Tuesday by the ministry’s spokesperson, Boade Akinola, the programme was organised by the Pan-African Diabetic Foot Study Group in collaboration with World Diabetes Foundation and Mark Anumah Medical Mission.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reassured it has the capacity to effectively diagnose and respond to monkeypox after Britain confirmed two cases of the disease in two patients one of whom had travelled to Nigeria.
Some 9.6 million people will die of cancer in 2018, according to a report of the Global Cancer Statistics 2018 released on Wednesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
IARC is part of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The number of people around the world, who have cancer is growing rapidly, with 18.1 million new cases, the report said.
Rains Force Hospitalization Of 183 Children For Malaria, Pneumonia
At least 183 children have been admitted into intensive care at a hospital in Maiduguri in the last week to be treated for malaria and pneumonia.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) which runs the 30-bed Paediatric Hospital in Gwange says the facility is “full that medical teams have been left with no option but to have children share beds.”
