‘Clinical mentoring of health workers reduces obstetric complications’
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.
On Treatment Of Gunshot, Stab Victims By Nigerian Hospitals
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.
Fake drugs: Lagos medicine dealers get Dec. 31, 2020 deadline to shutdown
The Federal Ministry of Health has extended the deadline for closing open drug markets to December 31, 2020 to allow stakeholders complete the construction of Coordinated Wholesale Centers (CWC) an alternative to open drugs market.
Upon the expiration of the new deadline, wholesale dealers on pharmaceutical products at various open drugs market across the country will move to designated locations tagged Co-ordinated Wholesale Centres (CWC) currently under construction.
‘Digitization’ll improve health outcomes, sustainability’
The Chief Executive Officer, Rejuvenate 360 Limited, Mr Onyekachi Agudosi, has said that digitalisation will improve health outcomes and patients care. Agudosi said this during the inauguration of the Rejuvenate Learn Health Initiative recently in Lagos.On the dearth of doctors
President of the Nigeria Medical Association [NMA] Dr Francis Faduyile recently raised alarm over shortage of healthcare practitioners in the country. He said only 42,000 doctors are available for Nigeria’s 200 million people.
He listed insecurity, unemployment, low remuneration, bad roads, poor job satisfaction and poor healthcare system as some of the reasons why Nigerian doctors and other healthcare practitioners are leaving the country for greener pastures abroad.
160 patients receive free surgeries from FETHI
The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Professor Adekunle Ajayi, said on Sunday that the hospital performed free surgical operations for 160 patients as part of the hospital’s end of the year activities.
Ajayi said the beneficiaries included 100 cataract patients and 60 others with lumps and glaucoma, stressing that the medical facility would in 2020 consolidate on its gains in 2019 through value addition. “We conducted cataract operations for 100 patients, meaning that by the grace of God, we were able to restore vision to 100 potentially blind members of society free of charge.
Nigeria needs no medical tourism for orthopaedic injuries, says CMD NOHD.
Against all expensive medical tourism, the Chief Medical Director, National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala-Kano, Dr. Mohammad Nuhu Salihu has disclosed that Nigeria has no business seeking Orthopaedic treatment abroad.
The Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon who spoke during the 60th anniversary of the hospital in Kano, said the country possess specialists that can compete with, and manage all sorts of Orthopaedic Injuries, like any expert globally.
Nigeria’s high infant HIV infection rate
Despite new claims of a significant reduction in national Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence rate in Nigeria, it is quite mortifying that the country still tops the mother-to-child transmission rate in the world.
This is evidence that a lot needs to be done before the epidemic can be brought under firm control. With global target set at 2030 for the elimination of the virus, it is doubtful if the country is ready to achieve that goal.
Omisore To Visit OAUTHC Jan 1, Present Gifts, Pay Hospital Bills Of Indigent Patients
Former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, is embarking on his annual visit to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), IIe- Ife, Osun State, January 1, 2020, to present gifts and pay hospital bills of indigent patients.
The coming event holding at 7:00 am at OAUTHC premises will mark the 16th edition of the programme which has seen Omisore showing his consistent yearly generosity to the needy in Osun State. Apart from show of love to patients at OAUTHC, Omisore is also to pay a similar visit to children orphanage and welfare centre in the state, where he will also pay their bills and present the children with gift items.
Neurologist explains how lower BMI reduces diabetes risk
A Consultant Neurologist, Dr Olusola Talabi, has said a lower body mass index can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Talabi, in an interview with our correspondent, said an increase in body mass was associated with insulin resistance, which may lead to type 2 diabetes.
