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Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, yesterday protested against the management of the hospital for ignoring their demands on adequate security and non-payment of their salaries for five months, among other issues.
Resident doctors of Anambra State-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital have rejected the new minimum wage offer presented to them by the state governor, Willie Obiano.
The Federal Government on Tuesday said that primary and secondary healthcare centers in the country have collapsed. Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, stated this on the floor of the Senate.
He also listed 14 states that failed to indicate interest in the basic healthcare provision fund created to enhance primary healthcare services. The minister was invited to brief the Senate on the poor state of teaching hospitals in the country.
Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State has inaugurated a contributory health insurance program for the state with a commitment of the government to pay for the poor. While launching the scheme at the Government House in Yola this week, he said the government would support those who are unable to contribute due to financial inadequacy because the program is meant to would provide health insurance coverage for all residents of the state irrespective of their financial capacities.
The Kogi State Government has confirmed four cases of Lassa fever in the 2019 outbreak of the disease in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Saka Audu, disclosed this at a joint news conference on Thursday in Lokoja on “Flood, Lassa, and other Epidemic Prone Diseases”.
The briefing was organized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the state ministry of health and other related ministries on public health.
South African Doctor Cures Deafness With First-Ever Middle Ear Transplant
A team of South African doctors in the capital city Pretoria has been hailed as pioneers in the field of global medicine after performing the first-ever transplant of a patient's middle ear.
The achievement which used 3D-printed technology to reconstruct the broken bones of a middle ear is being celebrated as a long-term solution to conductive hearing loss. What's more, the surgery can be performed on people of any age, including newborn babies, curing patients of a form of deafness that is caused by physical damage or infection in the middle ear as well as congenital birth defects and metabolic diseases.
With a 23 percent drug abuse prevalence rate, according to a recent national drug use survey, Oyo is one of the states in dire need of multi-pronged actions by all segments of the society to curb the menace.
Realising that the task of reversing the ugly trend is so huge that it cannot be left to the government and its agencies alone, a group of community leaders, under the umbrella of Ogbomoso First Community Initiative (O First Group), has taken up the fight against drug abuse in the ancient town and its environs.
Amid the hustle and bustle in Lagos, the delegation of some senior executive course participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) arrived the state on a study tour of its health sector. The visitors were all united with a mission – how to help the country evolve the best funding arrangement that can make universal healthcare coverage a reality.
In Lagos, the delegation’s first port of call was the state secretariat in Alausa, where key stakeholders and heads of strategic institutions in the state health sector had converged to brief the visiting public policy experts. The tour was facilitated by NIPSS, in collaboration with the Development Research and Project Centre, (DRPC) through Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PACFaH@Scale).
Medical experts have lamented the poor facilities and inefficient service delivery in public hospitals in the country. They decried the high cost of treatment in hospitals.
The medical gurus included the co-founder of Eko Hospital, Dr. Sonny Kuku; the Group Managing Director of First Foundation Medicals, Dr. Tosin Ajayi, and Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris.
The Imo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association on Wednesday called off its two-month strike after a meeting with Governor Emeka Ihedioha.
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The Federal Government on Monday inaugurated five governing boards of the health regulatory councils and boards under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH). The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Abdullahi Mashi, who inaugurated the boards in Abuja noted that the inauguration was long overdue.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the marketing of the Caya contoured diaphragm and Caya Gel, making this nonhormonal family planning method choice available for women in Nigeria for the first time.
The Kogi State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Idah, has secured full accreditation of four out of its five programmes for the first time since its establishment about 43 years ago. A statement by the Provost, Dr Nuhu Solomon Anyegwu, said the college received the letter for the full accreditation from the Registrar, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) on Thursday, that four of the five departments in the college had been fully accredited.
Anyegwu said the fully accredited programmes are; Health Information Management Department (5 years), Community Health Department (4 years) and Medical Laboratory Department (5 years). The Pharmacy Technician Department has already been granted approval to enlist students while initial provisional accreditation status was being awaited, he added.
The National Advocates for Health has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to all pending health bills passed by the National Assembly.
In a briefing yesterday in Abuja, chair of the group Prof. Oladapo Ladipo and vice chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Health Care Services, Mohammed Usman said the bills are the National Health Insurance Commission Bill which provides a policy framework that made Health Insurance mandatory in Nigeria, and the bills to establish the FCT Health Insurance Agency and the FCT Primary Health Care Development Board.
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