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The Maternal and New Child Health (MNCH2), a UK-DFID funded programme, has claimed that Nigeria loses about 700 Nigerian children daily as a result of different preventable health challenges.
Ashiru Hamza, the Advocacy and Accountability Advisor of the organisation, disclosed this while presenting the evidence at an Editorial Roundtable meeting in Kaduna on Thursday.
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has urged parents, religious leaders, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders to stop drug abuse in the society by sensitising Nigerians on its inherent dangers.
Mr Elijah Mohammed, the Registrar of PCN, gave the task in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja on the sideline of an awareness campaign organised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN).
France pledges to increase aid to Africa for girl child education, others
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has pledged to remain committed and increase the aid given by France to less developed countries, especially in Africa, in order to assist with women development in the continent.
Mr Macron, speaking at the goalkeepers’ event in New York on Wednesday, said France would be increasing its grants from $10 billion to $15 billion from 2020 to 2030.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on countries surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to scale up efforts to prevent the spread of Ebola through their borders. The call followed a sudden setback in containing the disease and accessing some Ebola patients in the DRC.
In a statement on its website on Wednesday, WHO said the response to the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the DRC was at a critical juncture of being lost, due to factors ranging from insecurity and mistrust.
Nigeria has only 40 rheumatologists for 200 million people — Experts
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Adewale Oke, has decried the low number of trained rheumatologists to treat musculoskeletal diseases in Nigeria.
Mr Oke, a professor, made the assertion at the West African Rheumatology Conference organised by the Nigerian Society of Rheumatology (NSR) in LASUTH, Ikeja on Monday.
UNGA: Midwives, Health Workers Should not be Target – Toyin Saraki
The founder of Well-being Africa Foundation, Toyin Saraki has called on Governments and global institutions to provide better respect, recognition, regulation, remuneration and safety for midwives, frontline health workers
More than 200 delegates, including dealmakers, entrepreneurs and investors, will meet at the Nutrition Africa Investor Forum (NAIF) to discuss how to position nutrition as a promising new investment area. The meeting holding in Nairobi on October 16-17 – World Food Day – is to explore partnerships, access business finance and enter new markets.
Over these two days, selected Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from across Africa will have opportunities to participate in the first ever Scaling Up Nutrition Pitch Competition as well as The Nutrition Dealroom to meet venture capitalists and business financiers to improve their access to finance.
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban the importation, production and distribution of products with Trans Fatty Acids (TFA) content.Ebola, Flu, Monkey Pox Epidemic Looms, New Vaccine May Cure Tuberculosis
Scientists have raised an alarm over the possibility of Ebola, flu virus and monkeypox epidemic that could kill over 400 million people and crash economies. Leading flu experts yesterday warned that a deadly flu pandemic like the Spanish flu could happen again and could wipe out 400 million globally.
A new technology has been able to make paralysed patients from the waist down to be able to walk. This technology comes in form of an electric patch fitted to the spinal cords. According to experts, the device helps to transport lost signal from the brain to the leg muscles.
US research teams at the University of Louisville and the Mayo Clinic reported the success in Nature Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute-Metta has assured the public of quality, affordable and accessible healthcare.
This is as a result of the claims by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that the hospital is trapped in corruption and mismanagement resulting in unhygienic conditions, a severe shortage of medicine and medical supplies making it difficult for Nigerians to access essential care.
5% of basic health fund to be disbursed for health emergencies- Minister
The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has said that five per cent of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund will go to health emergency management which covers all aspect of health, including accidents and disease outbreaks.
Mr Adewole spoke in Abuja while receiving top management officials from the Public Health England (PHE) the United Kingdom, who were on a working visit to Nigeria recently, according to a statement on Friday signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Boade Akinola.
The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has charged the government at all levels to recruit more nurses and midwives if the nation must commit to the reduction of maternal and child mortality rate.
The association also said if Nigeria wants to avoid needless deaths of her citizens, the government should ensure employment of frontline healthcare workers to cater for the health needs of the country. The charge was made at the just concluded National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the association held in Lagos, where the members bemoaned the state of healthcare and the challenges facing health workers in the country.
With a projection of 23 million people expected to die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in 2030, cardiologists have called on Nigerians to take good care of their health to prevent being victims.
According to available statistics, every year, 17.5 million people die prematurely from CVDs, which is the number one leading cause of death globally. Speaking during the World Heart Day, which is celebrated on September 29 of every year, with the aim of drawing attention to heart diseases and the problems associated with it, the Founder, Cardiac Health Initiative (CHI), Dr. Emeka Okocha, said there is a need to raise awareness on the consequences and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
