Appeal Court orders ‘My Pikin’ seller to pay N1m fine
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered Barewa Pharmaceutical Company to pay a fine of N1m for the sale of a contaminated baby teething mixture, My Pikin, which resulted in the death of a number of babies in the country.
In a lead judgment read by Justice E.C. Iyizoba, the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which on May 17, 2012 ordered the winding up of the company and the forfeiture of its assets.
Ogun uncovers 30 unlicensed nurses
Ogun State Government has uncovered 30 unlicensed nurses on its pay roll. The Director of Nursing in the state, Patience Odutayo, who made this known, said some of the nurses had been practising without valid licences.
The nurses, she said, were uncovered at a recent verification of nurses by the State Hospitals Management Board in Abeokuta.
Workers Shut Down Health Ministry, Raise the Alarm over Corruption, Misconduct
There was pandemonium yesterday at the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Secretariat, Abuja as workers in the ministry shut down the ministry, preventing the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole and other officials from gaining access to the building for over an hour.
The protesters also tackled the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Amina Shamaki, whom they accused of corruption, highhandedness and gross misconduct since assuming office in the ministry.
WHO Declares Guinea Free of Ebola Virus
The Ebola outbreak in Guinea is over, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, the second time the West African nation has been declared free of the virus. It has been six weeks since the last confirmed Ebola patient tested negative for the virus, according to the WHO report.Threats to Life from Diseases no Longer Local, Says WHO
The Director General of World Health Organization [WHO] , Dr. Margaret Chan, has warned the world of the transboundary nature of diseases and infections, saying ‘few threats to health are not local anymore”70m Nigerians Live With Haemophilia – Expert
The Founder and Chief Executive, Haemophilia Foundation of Nigeria (HFON), Mrs Megan Buckie Adediran, has disclosed that about 70 million Nigerians live with the blood disorder called haemophilia.
Adeniran made the disclosure yesterday when she paid a courtesy visit to the corporate headquarters of LEADERSHIP Group in Abuja.
FG to Address Health Workers Agitation Over Perm Sect
The Federal Government on Tuesday assured aggrieved workers in the Ministry of Health (FMoH) that their grievances were being addressed.
Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, the Head of Service of the Federation, told the protesting workers at the Federal Secretariat that a committee had been constituted by her office to study their demands and make recommendations.
Institute develops ‘tomato ebola’ vaccine
The National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Zaria, today said it had developed a vaccine for Tuta Absoluta, popularly known as ‘tomato ebola’. The Public Relations Officer of the institute, Alhaji Bala Aliyu, told theNews Agency of Nigeria in Zaria, Kaduna State that an end had come to the disease, which had been ravaging tomato farms.
According to him, the Director-General of the institute, Prof. Idris Bugaje, has worked extensively to provide a solution to the menace destroying the tomato farm in the country. “This vaccine has been found to be very effective after undergoing various scientific testing,’’ he said.
Coalition Calls for More Health Funding as Govt Probes GFATM Grant
A coalition of Nigerian-based health NGOs has called on the Federal Government to safeguard the achievements of the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria (GFATM) by finding the fund’s misappropriated money, blocking loopholes to prevent further underhand dealings in donor funds management and committing adequate local funding to TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria.Doctors to begin indefinite strike on Thursday, June 9
The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria(NARD) will begin an indefinite strike on Thursday, June 9, 2016. This was disclosed by NARD president, Muhammad Askira, on Tuesday, June 7, 2016, The Cable reports.
“Sixteen out of 58 federal tertiary institutions or centres were exempted from the initial centre based strike for the commitment of the chief medical director of the hospitals to implement the federal government’s directives,” he said.
