The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to ensure full implementation of this year budget signed into law by the President last Friday.

AMLSN commended the President for signing the Appropriation Bill into law, following some hiccups that had preceded its signing into law.

The protest rocking the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, heightened on Wednesday as protesting workers locked Governor Ayodele Fayose out. Some staff had staged violent protests following the death of two doctors from the hospital that were among the six doctors and a driver that died along Abuja-Kaduna road on April 24.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday accepted the offer to raise funds toward the establishment of Mobile Cancer Centre for treatment of people who require such treatment, just as he expressed absolute commitment to providing efficient health care service delivery to all residents of the State.

Ambode, who said the major driving philosophy of his administration is to selflessly serve humanity especially by lifting people from their challenges, expressed the optimism that the establishment of the Cancer Centre in Lagos would be to the greater benefit of the people.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has called for collaboration among stakeholders towards eliminating blinding trachoma in Nigeria.

Adewole made the call on Tuesday in Abuja at an occasion to celebrate the progress and collaborative efforts towards eliminating blinding trachoma in the country.

African and other developing nations can close the healthcare gap in their countries and reach OECD standards within years rather than decades through innovative public-private partnerships, a new report released by the World Economic Forum shows.

For example, according to the report, Health Systems: Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies, at current rates it would take Nigeria 300 years to achieve OECD levels of doctor access. However, case studies highlighted in the report reveal that programmes in Africa, particularly in Nigeria and Kenya, can reverse the trend.

The Optometric Association of Nigeria (NOA) has called on the  Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to help regulate devices used by eye care service providers.

The association’s president, Dr Damian Echendu, who made the call when he led its executive members on a courtesy visit to SON headquarters in Abuja, said this is to ensure that the public receives quality products and services from optometrists.

I was conducting a clinic recently when my patient related his ordeal in the hands of a surgeon. Apparently, my patient had undergone two botched operations for a broken bone in his arm. The highest-ranking medico performed the operations: the consultant. It seemed that the outcome of the operations was no better than what a local traditional bonesetter or nature could do.

To be fair, without the right atmosphere and proper management, most hospitals are an embodiment of incompetence. The fact is that with poor funding, poor internal resource allocation and an abject state in most hospitals, medicine in Nigeria today is about 20 years behind what obtains in progressive communities.

For every single day, we lose about five pregnant women to maternal mortality, in a month about 150 women to maternal mortality in Kaduna State, Nigerian Urban Reproductive  Health Initiative (NURHI) has said.

The Kaduna State team leader of Nigerian Urban Reproductive  Health Initiative (NURHI), Alhaji Abdullahi Kabiru, who revealed this yesterday, said many pregnant women died as a result of poverty.

The Director and Head of Inspection and Monitoring, Mrs Anthonia Aruya, led the team of inspectors on Monday. She said the shops were sealed for offences ranging from dispensing poisonous drugs, poor storage conditions and non-registration with PCN.

Some of the pharmacies and patent medicine shops operating in Asaba and Okpanam axis were taken by surprise, when the monitoring team visited without notice.