The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Prof Tokunbo Fabamwo has called on employers and employees to make the working environment as healthy as possible.

Fabamwo said that unhealthy working environment can provoke some illnesses that are life threatening and as such organisations must do everything within reach to ensure people derive job satisfaction. Speaking in Lagos during a 2-day annual retreat of the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, Fabamwo who was Guest Speaker said that every organisation needed to put in place health screening mechanism to ensure workers are screened regularly for their good health.

A consultant nephrologist (kidney care expert), Dr Jacob Awobusuyi,  has called on the federal and state governments to assist Nigerians battling kidney diseases because many of them die yearly as a result of insufficient funds to manage the ailment.

He made the call during the launch of N500 million kidney care trust fund by Remmy in Lagos, adding that 90 percent of Nigerians who start dialysis end up dying after a year due to lack of finance. According to him, an average individual needed N500,000 on a monthly basis for regular maintenance haemodialysis, and that many could not afford it due to out-of-pocket payment, hence the increasing mortality of kidney patients.

Medical doctors in general hospitals in Bauchi State have said that clinical mentoring of health workers of primary healthcare centres by the  European Union and UNICEF for nurses, community health extension workers in some selected local governments has significantly reduced  obstetrics complications, and maternal and child mortality rates in the state.

The project engaged the services of clinical mentors, including doctors and midwives from general hospitals and maternal child coordinators in the  selected local government areas to train them.

It is one thing to make a law and another for it to be properly passed across a large country. Sometimes there can be a conflict of laws, which makes it very difficult for citizens to either interpret or even know what or what not to obey. Nigeria as a developing democratic country will take its time in progressing.

The issue of whether or not gunshot or stab victims should be treated by an individual, hospital or clinic before filing a police report is a problem Nigeria still faces. One could say that the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act which says that under no obligation should any individual, hospital or clinic administer any treatment to any bullet wounded person without reporting to the police first conflicts with that of The National Health Acts which says the opposite.