Lagos, December 7, 2017 – The Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA), held the graduation ceremony for the 2017 cohort of the Healthcare Executives Leadership Program (HELP) and its Patient-Centred Care (PCC) programme at the Sheraton Hotel Ikeja, Lagos. The HLA is an institutional platform with a vision for transforming healthcare in Africa by building capacity and raising a generation of leaders who excel in governance and the provision of quality services.

Determined to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Delta State Contributory Health Commission (DSCHC) has adopted new model, “HeFAD” (Health for all Deltans). Director General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DSHC, Dr. Ben Nkechika, in a chat with journalists said HeFAD is to drive efficiency, spur creative and disruptive innovations that will ensure visible health impact and outcomes in Delta State.

Nkechika said the Commission adopted HeFAD as a result based Policy/Programme statement to guide its policies and strategies for the implementation of its mandate of ensuring access to quality and affordable healthcare services for all resident of Delta State irrespective of their socioeconomic status in the society.

Kano State Government says it is planning to spend over N80 million in the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week(MNCH). The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Kabiru Getso, announced this at a news Conference ahead of the week in Kano.

Getso said during the programme, over 2.6 million children below the age of six were expected to be supplemented with Vitamin A, while other children would receive free immunization against communicable diseases.

Experts from the BridgeClinic and the Institute of Fertility Medicine (IFM) of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), have showcased the 74 babies delivered through their collaboration, writes OYEYEMI GBENGA-MUSTAPHA.

No one gave it a chance of survival at the beginning. But six years later, the collaboration between Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the BridgeClinic (TBC) on  cheaper Invitro Fertility Treatment (IVF) for the financially challenged has started bearing fruits.

Lagos has recorded a drop in HIV/AIDS prevalence, the  Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Oluseyi Temowo, has said. He stated this at the World AIDS Day, which had as theme: Right to health: Making it happen.

He said: “We know that there is a drop of 1.7 percent, and the screening done among communities the prevalence rate is 0.3 percent, whereby 576, 406 were screened at different health facilities, and 29, 010 were screened at communities. ‘’The figure on positive expectant mothers at antenatal in 2014 is four percent but now, we have 1.4 percent.’’

Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Oyo State chapter and the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Teaching Hospital chapter have rejected the redeployment of 55 resident doctors from the teaching hospital, Ogbomoso to the Oyo state Ministry of Health .

The unions in a statement on the redeployment asked the LAUTECH management to reverse the decision within 21 days or face the wrath of the members. According to them, the action is an “aberration and deliberate plan to rob the good people of Oyo State of specialised healthcare.”

Death rates for patients undergoing surgery in Africa are double the global average even though they tend to be younger, scientists said, adding that many deaths were likely preventable.

According to a study published in the Lancet medical journal, scientists said contributory factors include few specialists, poor hospital infrastructure and a lack of post-operative monitoring.

Australia Health Minister, Greg Hunt, on Thursday said Australia would export medicinal cannabis to other countries after the government approved cannabis exports, the spokesman said.

“The move will bolster Australia’s developing domestic market and help international patients, all while trading on the Pacific country’s reputation for clean and green agriculture.

“Our goal is very clear, to give Australian farmers and manufacturers the best shot at being the world’s number one exporter of medicinal cannabis.