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THE strike embarked upon by local government areas in Bayelsa State over the non-payment of salary arrears has hampered the medical outreach programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund in the state.
The UNICEF team was in the state last for the rescheduled second round of the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week. The second round of MNCHW was held nationwide from December 4 to December 10, 2015, but did not hold in Bayelsa State due to the governorship election that took place in the state on December 5, last year.
The exercise monitored by Southern City News in some remote villages indicated that many government-owned health facilities were under lock and key, while a few others that were opened lacked adequate health workers to complement UNICEF team to administer services to the people.
Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African “meningitis belt” countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa’s biggest public health achievements—the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac®, designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup A meningococcal disease from meningitis belt countries and is now being integrated into routine national immunization programs.
Cases of the deadly infectious disease went from over 250,000 during an outbreak in 1996 to just 80 confirmed cases in 2015 among countries that had not yet conducted mass immunization campaigns and among those unvaccinated, scientists at the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) Closure Conference reported.
THE Federal Government has embarked on a reform programme in the health sector, through a new scheme entitled Saving One Million Lives (SOML) initiative in its bid to ensure the recent dwindling income from oil revenue does not have much effect on healthcare services in the country. 
The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to establish a DNA forensic centre, which it said will be the first of its kind in the country and will be located in a public health facility on Lagos Island. 
The Kwara State government in collaboration with Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has launched the health workforce registry for proper planning and to rid the profession of ghost workers. 
The Federal Government has ordered the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), Prof Anthony Emeribe to vacate office “with immediate effect’’.
Lagos State Government, yesterday, confirmed that the blood samples of victims of the epidemic of febrile rash illness that claimed the lives of over 20 children in Otodo Gbame community in Eto-Osa Local Government Area of the state showed measles virus. WHO Announces Support for Nigeria, Ghana in Fight Against Meningitis
WORLD Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced further support to Nigeria and other countries that have recently suffered outbreaks of meningitis C. 
Recent statistics published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveal that the life expectancy at birth in Nigeria is 53/55 years (male/female) while that in the United Kingdom is 79/83 years respectively. Osun Health Crisis: NMA Urges Buhari, APC to Call Aregbesola to Order
Following the withdrawal of medical services by doctors in Osun State and the ensuing health crisis, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to call Governor Rauf Aregbesola to order.More...
FG Gives JOHESU/ AHPA February 29 Deadline to Submit Supporting Documents of Their Demands
The federal government of Nigeria has demanded that the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of health care professionals submit documents backing their demands.
There is panic among some students Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife on Sunday as malaria fever hit some of their colleagues.
Reports of strange virus went viral on the social media on Sunday but our correspondent, who visited the OAU HealthCentre learnt that although the number of students who had malaria had increased, the situation was not as alarming as it was painted. Our correspondent observed that some sick students brought to the health facility were treated and discharged.
Some of the students were seen vomiting but the situation was immediately brought under control as doctors and other medical personnel on duty attended to them.
Thirty-nine new doctors were inducted by the Lagos State Government at the weekend. Daily Trust reports that the new doctors have undergone series of training spanning years at the Lagos State College of Medicine (LASCOM) within the complex of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. Kwara, Indian Hospital to Partner in Provision of Health Care Services -
The Kwara State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Suleiman Alege, on Monday said that the state would partner Continental Hospital, India, to provide health care services to residents of Kwara at a subsidised rate.
