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Health Workers to Buhari: Don’t Appoint only Doctors as Ministers of Health
The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has warned President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to avoid past mistakes in his appointment of ministers, especially as it concerns the ministry of Health. MHWUN urged the president not to appoint only Medical Doctors as Ministers of Health.
In the current dispensation, the two ministers of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole and Dr. Osagie Ehinare are both medical doctors and not until recently, the permanent secretary of the ministry was also a medical doctor. Nigerians are looking forward towards the appointment of new ministers as the president sets to commence his second term in office on 29th May 2019.
Registrar, Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria, Mr Elijah Mohammed has announced plans to include pharmaceutical oncology into its continuous professional training to increase the safety of cancer treatment in Nigeria.
Mr. Mohammed made the disclosure at the opening of a four-day workshop with the theme ‘Pharmaceutical Care in Oncology Practice’ at the University College Hospital (UCH).
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ikpeme Ikpeme as the new Chief Medical Director (CMD) for the troubled University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Cross River State.
According to a press statement by the spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Health, Boade Akinola, Mr Ikpeme’s appointment will take effect from April 16.
David Beckham Launches World’s First Voice Petition to End Malaria in Yoruba, Eight other Languages
Ahead of World Malaria Day, former football star, David Beckham, has launched the world’s first voice petition to end malaria for the campaign “Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live.”
Instead of collecting signatures, the campaign asks people around the world to use the power of their voice to demand action by visiting malariamustdie.com and recording the message ‘Malaria Must Die’.
Nigeria to establish emergency centre to tackle maternal, infant mortality
The federal government has said it will establish a National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC) to address public health concern on maternal, newborn and child deaths across Nigeria.
The Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this while presenting the agency’s strategic plan for the rapid reduction of maternal, newborn and infant motility in Abuja on Monday.
The Federal Government has warned Nigerians seeking to study medicine in Ukraine to ensure the authenticity of the institution. This warning was given in Abuja on Tuesday, by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole.
According to a press statement made available to us, the minister gave the warning after the Ukrainian Ministry of Health said it cannot guarantee the quality of education of a university in the Eastern European country.
Key players in the Nigerian health sector have opined that for the country to achieve the World Health Organisation’s 2030 target of Universal Health Coverage, the government and other stakeholders must increase funding for the sector and key into health insurance for the people.
Folashade Salako, a final year student of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), has been declared as the best Pharmacy brain in the country after clinching the 2019 Shalina Young Talent Award (SYTA).
After three fiercely fought competitive regional rounds at the University of Ibadan, Faculty of Pharmacy, OAU Ife and Faculty of Pharmacy UNILAG, the grand finale of the competition, took place at Ibis Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, on 8 April 2019.
Students of the University of Lagos have urged the government and the varsity’s management to beef up security at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, which shares premises with the varsity’s College of Medicine.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said that long term exposure to low levels of contaminants in food obtained from animals that are poorly kept or fed with poor quality feeds exposes consumers to diseases.
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Adequate intake of certain nutrients is associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality when the nutrient source is foods, but not supplements, according to a new study. There was no association between dietary supplement use and a lower risk of death.
In July 2018, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched the Patients’ Bill of Rights (PBoR).
The event at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja,.organised by the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), was attended by critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s health sector, including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
PBoR is an aggregation of patients’ rights that exist in other instruments including the 1999 Constitution, Consumer Protection Act, Child Rights Act, Freedom of Information Act, National Health Act, and other sundry regulations.
There are 1.7 million Nigerians with diabetes type 1 and type 2, according to the International Diabetes Federation. That figure is about the same as the population of Bayelsa State.
The life of a man or woman with type 2 diabetes in Nigeria is one regular visit to doctors, tests and expensive medication taking either as tablets or injections. It is a life fraught with financial, physical and emotional stress. But there is emerging evidence that this does not have to be so. Research in the past couple of years points conclusively to the fact that type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
Commissioner for health, Lagos state, Dr. Jide Idris, has restated commitment to reduce the maternal mortality across the state and environs. He made the remarks during the facility tour of rehabilitated Ayinke House at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
