Minister To NCDC Boss: Dispatch Emergency Team To Borno State
The minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole has given his first assignment and litmus test to the director-general of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Abdusalami Nasidi on the reported case of nutritional emergency in Borno State, where it has been estimated that eight children might die daily as a result of malnutrition.
The minister who gave the charge on Monday, at the conference room of the Centre during the opening ceremony and inaugural meeting of the governing board of the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Disease Control (RCDC), said NCDC needs to as a matter of urgency, dispatch a rapid emergency team to Borno state.
I’Il Reduce Maternal, Child Mortality– Ishaku
Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has said that his administration will not relent in the efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality in the state.
Ishaku, who stated this yesterday in Jalingo during the occasion of the flag-off ceremony for the maternal newborn and child health week said the state government has put in place clear-cut policies and programmes for the provision of maternal and child health care.
Joint Health Sector Unions & Assembly Of Health Care Professionals Communique
RE — COMMENCEMENT OF 7 DAYS WARNING STRIKE How Autism Affects Your Child — Experts
Imagine having a child that was normal at birth, but suddenly after 24 months the child’s skills begin to regress? Imagine having to take care of a child with disability without knowing what to do or where to go? If you can imagine these, then, you will appreciate what a number of Nigerian parents who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, are currently going through. Niger Republic is pioneering thermo-stable vaccine for Rotavirus
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in Maradi, Niger are trialling a first-of-its-kind, thermo-stable vaccination for Rotavirus, a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, killing an estimated 450 000 children around the world each year.
“Vaccines for Rotavirus do exist and the disease is completely preventable,” says Dr Stephen Nurse-Findlay, one of the hosts of Al Jazeera’s award-winning medical show, The Cure. “But these vaccines must be kept below eight degrees celsius, which makes it difficult to reach children in remote communities where resources are limited, and where the temperature can often soar.”
2016 Budget Failed Transparency, Participation – Scorecard
A civil society group Evidence for Action, E4A, has called on Nigeria government to make health budget transparent to be able to revamp the sector.UCH Takes Delivery of N100m Laboratory Equipment
The management of Nigeria’s premier University and teaching Hospital, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State, has taken delivery of an ultra-modern laboratory unit.Fed govt to improve funding for nutrition, breastfeeding
The Federal Government has pledged its commitment towards supporting breastfeeding and improving funding to Scale -up nutrition and breastfeeding practices across the country.
The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari made this known today in Abuja, during the Launch of 2016 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding and High – level Policy Dialogue on Promoting Breastfeeding for National Development in Nigeria.
Al-Makura Approves Clinical Laboratory Research Centre in Nasarawa
Gov. Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has approved the establishment of clinical laboratory research centre in the state to serve as research training and services centre for HIV, Lassa fever and emerging viruses.Pregnant women who take paracetamol risk having an autistic child
A new study has revealed that mothers who take paracetamol during pregnancy may be increasing the risk of their children developing autism. Published in the Journal of Epidemiology, the study found that children exposed to paracetamol during pregnancy were at a 30 per cent increased risk of losing some attention functions.
Even though the painkiller is usually given to pregnant women, researchers say they have now identified an association between exposure to the drug and subsequent autism in boys.
