The Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti (FETHI), yesterday announced the recovery and subsequent discharge of a female lassa fever patient from the hospital. 

The Chief Medical Director, Dr Lawrence Ayodele who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Ido Ekiti said, the feat was achieved through the determination of staff of the tertiary health institution. 

A 19-year-old student of School of Nursing, owned by the institution, was diagnosed with the diseases about three weeks ago and has been receiving treatment at isolation centre of the hospital. 

Presently, in South America, there are as many as 1 million adults reported to have been infected by the Zika virus.

It is a disease which experts say is usually relatively mild and requires no specific treatment.

However, recent incidents were accompanied by the Brazilian Health Ministry’s latest announcement that the suspected and confirmed cases of babies with microcephaly linked to the Zika virus in Brazil had increased from over 3000 cases to 4,074.

The Borno Primary Health Care Management Board (BPHCM) says no fewer than 190,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 28 camps in the state had benefitted from its free medical outreach. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Sule Mene,

disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Maiduguri. Mene said that 10,800 children aged zero to five were enrolled for management of varying degrees of malnutrition, while about 121,000 were given various immunisation antigen. 

He explained that the agency had inaugurated about 240 Integrated Primary Health Care Teams (IPHCT) that would ensure availability of the relevant services to meet the demands of IDPs in camps.

There are plans to end the five months old strike in Osun State following a statement from the Osun State House of Assembly. The Chairman of the Osun State Association of Medical and Dental Officers, Dr. Isiaka Adekunle,

made this known after a meeting with the state's lawmaker over their demands. According to the statement the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Olatubosun Oyintiloye, Adekunle raised the hope of resumption during the meeting of the lawmakers with the leadership of the striking doctors.

It was also reported that the Speaker, Najeem Salaam, appealed to the doctors to suspend the industrial action, saying the masses were at the receiving end of the crisis and noting that they are stakeholders in the state.

According to the minister of health of the federation, the total number of Nigerian who have been infected with the much-feared Zika virus stands at 25% of the total population.

Given that Nigeria's population was 173.6million in 2013 according to the world bank, the exact number of infected persons, according to the minister, would be a mind-boggling 43million.

This disturbing information was made known when he was invited by the National assembly to defend the budget of the Federal Ministry of Health for the year 2016.

American scientists carried out a number of lab tests on grouped mice suffering from prostate cancer. By feeding one group with walnuts, another with walnut oil,

and the last mice group with no walnut at all, the researchers were able to detect a drastic deceleration in the growth of the tumor and malignant cells in the rats fed with walnuts.

 The first group did not consume walnuts, the second group received walnuts, and the third one was fed with walnut oil. The experiment showed that the development of the tumor and malignant cells significantly slowed among the rodents in the second and the third groups. 

The federal government (FG) has warned medical practitioners against the institutionalization of female genital mutilation (FGM/C) in Nigeria. The minister of state for health,

Osagie Ehanire stated this at the presidential villa in Abuja, on Tuesday, February 9 during the launch of the national campaign for the abandonment of FGM in Nigeria. 

Ehanire noted that almost 20 million women aged 15 to 49 were estimated to have undergone FGM in Nigeria. This accounts for 16 per cent of the estimated 125 million victims of FGM in the world.

A total of over 100,000 radiographers are needed in the country if the health and medical needs of over 170 million Nigerians are to be met maximally. Investigations have revealed that the current number is inefficient. Also, to make the profession more attractive to Nigerians, especially undergraduates,

a 5-man committee has been set up to review the radiography curriculum and proffer solutions which will encourage Nigerian universities to adopt the course as only six universities offer it at undergraduate level.

 This was revealed by Mr. Michael Sunday Okpaleke of the Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria (RRBN) at the opening ceremony of the Post-Graduate Diploma in ultrasound course 2016/2017 session module 1 at the Asokoro District Hospital.