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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike action and give the Federal Government more time to address the grievances of doctors.
This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. According to the statement, Buhari made the appeal at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, last weekend, revealed his plan to give Nigeria’s health sector a face-lift from this year but admitted that paucity of funds could be an obstacle, given the lean budgetary allocation to health.
During his visit to Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) last weekend, he told journalists of plans to change some obsolete system in federal owned government hospitals, saying the renovation would be carried out in 14 tertiary hospitals, in the first phase.
The Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole, has charged Nigerians to invest into healthcare services to ensure reduction in numbers of Nigerians going abroad to seek for medical attention.
Medical activities at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Asaba, in the past three weeks have been paralysed, following strike action embarked on by resident doctors, leaving no fewer than six persons dead while others are in severe pains .
Expectedly, most pregnant women are at present either going to private clinic, maternity homes or traditional birth attendants as a result of the industrial actions embarked by the resident doctors at the hospital.
The Sokoto State Government on Sunday said it had stockpiled vaccines and drugs to prevent any outbreak of heat-related diseases.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Balarabe Kakale, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto that the vaccines and drugs were for measles, typhoid fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, gastro-enteritis, chicken pox, heat rashes, among others.
National Primary Health Care Development Agency will deploy management staff to strengthen primary health care in versions of the agency newly created in states.
NPHCDA executive director Muhammad Ado announced this during a working visit of health minister Isaac Adewole to the agency’s Abuja headquarters.
World Health Organisation(WHO) and health partners are working together to provide urgent health services including essential medicines, vaccines and treatment for diseases such as cholera and measles, often in insecure and extremely difficult settings.
Collectively we need US$ 2.2 billion to provide lifesaving health services, of which WHO is appealing for US$ 480 million.
The Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN) has called for a speedy launch of the National Health Act to enable Nigerians benefit from it.Committee of CMDs, MDs kick over Minister’s 5-year Single Tenure Policy -
The crisis rocking the Federal Ministry of Health over the decision of the Minister, Prof. Folorunso Isaac Adewole, to implement the yet-to-be-approved five-year single tenure for heads of parastatals, agencies and regulatory bodies appears to have deepened. 
Rising from a meeting of its national officers committee, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for the reconstitution of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), which was disbanded by the federal government, along with other professional regulatory bodies and government parastatals.
Speaking through a press release jointly signed by Dr Kayode Obembe, NMA president and Dr Adewunmi Alayaki, secretary general, the association said it was highly appalled by the state
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Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Pham Le Tuan on Tuesday said over 75,000 deaths are caused by cancer annually in Vietnam, while there are around 150,000 newly-detected cancer cases each year.
Tuan said at a seminar on approach to effective and affordable cancer treatment held in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi. Reports at the seminar showed that cancer is becoming one of top causes for death worldwide as well as in Asia and in Vietnam.
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) took part in a consultation of the Expert Group of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth (HEEG) and health professions associations held 11 April 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, has set up a 32-member committee of traditional rulers to promote health issues in rural communities.
The committee is chaired by Dr Bello Abdulkadir, Salanken Zazzau and District Head of Waje, Tudun Wada in Zaria. This was disclosed by Hamza Ikara, the State Health Education Officer at a two day training for members of the committee, adding that the effort would promote and strengthen utilisation of health services at the grassroots.
The residents of a slum settlement in the Abuja Municipal Area Council, Saburi 1, claim that 38 people died suddenly after complaining of headache and fever.
The Daily Sun also reports that a 14 year old girl, Mariam Mustapha died at the weekend after complaining of the same symptoms.
