The National Vice President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Onuh Edoka has called on the Kogi State governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello to henceforth begin the full payment of health workers salaries in the Local government with immediate effect.

Comrade Edoka made the call at the weekend during the inauguration of the caretaker committee, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Kogi State chapter. He said local government workers under CONHEALTH have been receiving 50 percents salary, while that of the state were receiving 78 per cent.

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency( NPHCDA), says immunization is the foundation of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in the country.

Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director NPHCDA said this at the Expanded Interagency Coordination Conmittee (ICC) to review Nigeria’s Strategy on Immunization and Primary Health Care System Strengthening (NSIPSS) on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that meeting was the first high-level gathering by GAVI Board and Alliance Gavi since the inception of NSIPPS accountability framework.

The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday directed the state’s newly established kidney centre to offer free dialysis to patients. The governor also wants the state health experts and science educationists to carry out research on why kidney failures have been on the rise in the state of late.

Mr Zulum, a professor, gave this directive when he visited the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital where the new kidney centre was set up early this year by his predecessor, Kashim Shettima, who is now a senator. Touring the the facility, the governor expressed delight over the centre’s commencement of dialysis for patients.

The Chief Executive Officer, Rejuvenate 360 Limited, Onyekachi Agudosi has called on the Nigerian government and other stakeholders to digitalise healthcare system, as this would help the country achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

He said the role of digitalisation cannot be over emphasised, and that there was need to push the conversation forward to place Nigeria and Africa on the map of global healthcare industry.

Lagos – The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, says that clinical process in the hospital will be fully digitalised by 2020. Fabamwo disclosed this on the sidelines of the 1st LASUTH Christmas Concert on Wednesday in Lagos.

Fabamwo said that LASUTH would use technology to boost its efficiency and ensure better patient management as well as care in its delivery of quality healthcare services to citizens. “In the area of infrastructure, we hope to complete the digitalisation process that we started.

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr. Gambo Aliyu has stated that very soon, the country’s HIV burden will be brought under control to at least 90 per cent.

Speaking during the unveiling of NACA’s Southwest Zonal Office in Lagos recently, he said he said the country has done remarkably well in stemming the tide of HIV in the last 15 years resulting in reduction of the prevalence of the disease. “Now we are focusing on ensuring that HIV burden is 90 per cent under control in the country.

The Federal Ministry of Health says it will implement the 2020 National Oral Health Policy, which will address the burden of oral diseases in the country. An oral health policy helps to harness political, economic and socio-cultural factors at the individual, family, community, national and international levels.

Dr Bola Alonge, Head of Dentistry Division in the ministry gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Alonge said that stakeholders had on Dec. 17, reviewed the draft policy that was developed in 2012 and expired in 2015.

ONE of the most pressing issues in the Nigerian health sector in 2019 is the concessioning and privatisation of the major Federal Health Institutions in the country.

The development has elicited concerns among stakeholders in the industry and as  2019  draws to a close, health workers under the aegis of the  Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, JOHESU/AHPA, called for  scrapping of the consession plan. In an open letter to  President Mohammadu Buhari, JOHESU/AHPA –

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.