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Despite several interventions to reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Nigeria still contributes ten percent of the global burden of maternal deaths.
The wife of the governor of Plateau state, Mrs Regina Simon Lalong has commission six primary health cares in Jos South and Jos North local government areas of the state to enable women access and use of family planning services.
The primary health cares commissioned were located at Bukuru Jos Expressway, Bukuru Central and Vwang in Jos South LG.
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is launching a new global campaign, #Vaccineswork to emphasize the power and safety of vaccines among parents and wider social media users.
Amid growing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, UNICEF’s campaign will use social media to show that most parents trust vaccines to protect their children.
Shalina Healthcare is set to promote pharmacy as a profession in Nigeria by engaging tertiary health institutions in the country in the professional development of young pharmacists.
The Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi charges just N60,00 for hip replacement surgeries as part of its social service to Benue people, according to Prof. Terrumun Swende, its Chief Medical Director.
Mr Swende told journalists on Friday in Makurdi that the teaching hospital’s primal objective was not to generate revenue but to offer tertiary healthcare services, train doctors and consultants, and offer other social services.
On the heels of the 2019 general election, economic experts and analysts of the local manufacturing industry have called for a turnaround of fortunes of the Nigerian industrial sector.
They have asked the incoming administration to promulgate policies that would facilitate maximizing potentials of the Nigerian pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, who spoke at the 1st Association of Industrial Pharmacists of Nigeria (NAIP) 2019 Bi-Monthly meeting and lecture, noted that “Companies cannot grow if the economy is not growing,”
Almost £3m is being invested by the Scottish government to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists, with some funding being used to enable students to experience remote and rural practice.
Under the Scottish Pharmacy Experiential Learning scheme, student pharmacists currently undertake experiential learning in community pharmacy and hospitals, but a funding injection of £2.85m for 2018/ 2019 will enable them to experience new settings such as primary care and NHS 24.
Medical doctors practicing in hospitals and health facilities owned by the Imo State Government on Wednesday began what they say is “indefinite strike action.” The chairman, Nigeria Medical Association in the state, Kyrian Duruewuru, who briefed journalists in Owerri, accused the state government of treating the striking doctors unfairly.
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public of the circulation of a fake anti-hypertensive drug.
Moji Adeyeye, NAFDAC’s Director General (DG), in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the drug, Hydrochlorothiazide 50mg (containing Glibenclamide) was currently circulating in Cameroon.
As the global community gears up to celebrate World Malaria Day, which is commemorated annually on 25 April, the Government of Malawi has taken a giant stride in launching the world’s first malaria vaccine, in a landmark pilot programme on Tuesday.
Announcing the epoch-making pilot programme, the World Health Organisation (WHO) through a press statement, applauded the initiative of the Malawian government, in partnering with the institution, along with two other African countries, towards the elimination of malaria in Africa.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently revealed new ways that digital technology can be used to improve human health through computers and mobile phones.
“Harnessing the power of digital technologies is essential for achieving universal health coverage,” said WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Ultimately, digital technologies are not ends in themselves; they are vital tools to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.”
To ensure availability, quality and affordability of malaria drugs, pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have urged the Federal Government to encourage the local manufacture of anti-malaria medications. President PSN, Sam Ohuabunwa, in a statement ahead of the World Malaria Day (WMD), today, April 25, 2019, said there are presently some plants and herbs around, which have shown both anti-malaria activity and insect repellent ability.
The pharmacist said the government should sponsor research through her agencies like the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) and the Pharmacy schools towards developing these herbal remedies. Ohuabunwa said: “The malaria-vaccine RTSs developed by GSK and approved by WHO in 2015 presently undergoing evaluation in about seven African countries for public health impact may become one of the vaccines for routine immunization. The country should begin to prepare to leverage on this to save our children.
As the World Meningitis Day (WMD) held yesterday with the theme, Life After Meningitis”, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) released fresh frightening statistics about the contagious disease wherein 58 persons were killed and 760 others infected in 15 states. Noting that the epidemic affects some 2.8 million people every year globally, NCDC’s Director General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, noted that the menace remained a major public health issue affecting countries in the African meningitis belt.
He said the incidence is high during the dry season and the disease could kill within 24 hours, thus its early detection was crucial. Symptoms include sudden high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, sensitivity to light (photophobia) as well as drowsiness and convulsions. It is transmitted through tiny droplets of respiratory secretions from an infected person through coughing, sneezing and touching of contaminated surfaces.
FG to Spend Over N1bn as Compensation for Codeine Seizures — NAFDAC Boss
Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Monday said the Federal Government would pay more than N1 billion as compensation to the companies that had their codeine impounded more than a year ago.
Adeyeye disclosed this on Monday in Lagos at a news conference to debunk a newspaper report that 70 percent of medicines in Nigeria are fake.
