The Nigerian government needs to implement a comprehensive health intervention that addresses all cases of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in the country, rather than focus on a selected few.

The Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) made this call on Tuesday at its 2019 conference in Abuja. The Chief Executive Officer and Co-chair of NISA 2019 conference, Patrick Dakum, who was speaking to journalists at the conference, stressed that every disease is crucial.

The World Health Organisation has said four out of ten patients are ‘harmed’ during the process of seeking medical care. Many of these injuries can be prevented through quality healthcare services, it noted.

In order to raise awareness on the importance of patient safety globally, the 72nd World Health Assembly agreed that the World Patient Safety Day should be celebrated September 17.

India has banned e-cigarettes because they endanger the health of youths in the country, the Federal Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, said on Wednesday.

“The federal cabinet has approved an ordinance to ban production, manufacture, import, export, transport, distribution, sales, storage and advertisement of e-cigarettes,’’ Mr Sitharaman said.

The National Postgraduate Medical College, on Thursday in Abuja, admitted 477 convokes into the fellowship of the college. Da Lilly-Tariah, the president of the college, made this disclosure at the 37 convocation ceremony of the college.

He said the Faculty of Obstetrics and Gynecology had the highest number with 100 convokes while the Faculty of Paediatric and Internal medicine had 59 and 51 respectively.

The European Union’s Rule of Law And Anti-Corruption (ROLAC) project, has opened a free Sexual Abuse Referral Centre at Enugwu-Ukwu General Hospital, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra.

Dr Bernadette Uchendu, Director of the centre, said it was opened to offer a proper psychological cushion to rape victims in the state.

Countries must invest at least one percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) in primary health care development in order to achieve Universal Health Coverage, a new World Health Organisation report has said.

The UN health agency in a statement issued on its website on Sunday ahead of the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on UHC said the world needs to double health coverage between now and 2030, as scores of people currently have no access to health care.

For the past few weeks, the news of the appointment of two health professionals as Ministers of Health and State for Health by the President Muhammadu Buhari has been well celebrated and the reason for that is not far-fetched.

Having two health professionals manning the affairs of the health sector, would help resolve the myriads of challenges ranging from poor funding, brain drain, huge burden of communicable and non communicable diseases (NCDs), population explosion, poverty and high maternal mortality, among others, that are bedevilling the sector, according to stakeholders in the sector.

The 21st century will be the century of all pharmacists, as pharmaceutical scientists and educators have key roles to play in the evolution of the Pharmacy Profession, FIP President, Dominique Jordan has said.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 79th FIP Congress held at ADNEC- Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate (UAE) on Sunday, the FIP president noted that pharmacists can have an active role to play in all 10 current threats to global health identified by the World Health Organization (WHO).

There seems to be an end in sight to the hitherto unstructured drug and medical products distribution system in Nigeria, as the National Agency for Food and Drug, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is set to introduce a new technology to track fake and substandard drugs, as well as strengthen the drug supply chain in the country.

The introduction of the new system of tracing and tracking technology is crucial to the reduction in the circulation of fake and substandard medicines in the country, which is presently put at 17 percent, said the NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye.

New research has recently revealed that eating a Mediterranean diet could help older women with high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes reduce the risk of cardiovascular attacks, strokes and related conditions.

According to the recent statistics released from the Federal Ministry of Health, 40 percent of Nigerians suffer from different illnesses like diabetes, stroke, heart attack and mental illnesses. An estimated 30 percent of these patients are likely to die of heart disease, and 16 percent will die of stroke.