The Lagos State Health Service Commission says in has commenced a capacity development programme for 2,200 workers across all cadres in the 27 secondary health care facilities of the state towards effective service delivery.

The Permanent Secretary of the commission, Dr Benjamin Eniayewun, said this at the opening of the training at the Lagos Island Maternity Training Centre on Monday, noting that the workshop would span three months to ensure an all-encompassing qualitative medical delivery among health care workers.

Over the past decade, the world has witnessed unprecedented scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), which has saved the lives of tens of millions of people. As of December 2019, 25.4 million people out of an estimated 38 million people living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) were receiving ART globally.

Increased use of ART has, not unexpectedly, been accompanied by the emergence of some degree of HIV drug resistance, the levels of which have steadily increased in recent years. 

Respite is on the way for children born with cleft lips as the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu in collaboration with Smile Train now offers comprehensive free surgery and palate care for them to patients across South East region. The gesture was declared at a National cleft Stakeholders Forum, South-East zone, held yesterday at National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu.

With the theme, “planning for sustainable comprehensive cleft care activities”, the forum urged the people of the South-East to make good use of the opportunity provided by the free medical programme.

As part of measures to avert a second wave of COVID-19, medical experts have urged the government to improve surveillance and sustain internal vigilance. They noted that the government has done a good job in the fight against the pandemic, hence the need to sustain the efforts and also increase testing capacity.

Chairman, Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board, Professor Akin Osibogun, commended the proactive nature of the government of Nigeria and Lagos State in preventing disastrous consequences of the pandemic.

The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Arbovirus and Vector Research Centre (NAVRC) to investigate the outbreak of an unidentified ailment in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue.

The upper chamber of the National Assembly also urged the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to promptly put up surveillance to contain the disease and see to the treatment of victims, while protecting others from further contracting it.

“The lockdown affected my access to care because I cannot get to the clinic for my drugs and I was also scared of going to the hospital because of the pandemic.”

These were the words of Mrs Patience, a person living with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). Patience, mother of three, who discovered her status in 2011. According to her, the first time she found out, it was something else but she summoned the courage and with help from the family, especially the husband.

The Enugu State government in collaboration with the United Nations Children Education Fund have established three centres for Management of Acute Malnutrition in the state. 

The establishment of the centres according to the state nutrition officer, Dr Henrietta Ugwu, was part of efforts to tackle rising cases of acute malnutrition among children in the state. Ugwu spoke Wednesday, at a one-day media engagement workshop organized by Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Enugu.

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, decried the mass exodus of workers in the health sector, calling on the Federal Government to discourage the migration of health workers to other countries. 

The House specifically urged the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Productivity to “review the salary, allowances, and welfare of Nigerian medical practitioners.” The House also called on the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Productivity to “consider expanding the size of the medical practitioner in the country to create employment for the

The US hopes to have immunized 100 million people against Covid-19 by the end of February, a top official said Wednesday, which is approximately 40 percent of the country’s adult population.

The push should start within weeks when vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna-NIH are expected to be approved. Each of these requires two doses, the second after three weeks and four weeks, respectively.

The Federal Government on Monday promised to deal with administrative lapses in public health institutions by introducing a fully automated electronic management system of patients’ records and finances.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said this in a keynote address he delivered at a media engagement organized by the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja. He promised that the government would strengthen “a framework that mandates quarterly financial reporting on critical funding lines, in line with the provisions of the National Health Act 2014.”