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The health sector is one area in the country where excellence is hardly celebrated, but the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award is changing the narrative through recognition of excellent hard work among the players in the industry. Martins Ifijeh writes
Health experts have recently emphasized the benefits of Family Planning (FP) to the quality of maternal health and mortality in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Health, and Information and Culture, to deepen their collaboration with state governments to ensure that Nigeria is finally certified polio free by 2017.
This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist fromAhmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
The Federal Government yesterday unveiled a health intervention programme that would provide free surgery to 10,000 poor and needy Nigerians registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The programme, which will start on July 18 in 46 health facilities across Nigeria, will also extend free breast and cervical cancer tests to 18,000 Nigerians as well as free diabetes and hypertension tests to 500,000 others.
The Federal Government has said that Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five children and 145 women of child-bearing age to severe and acute malnutrition and iron deficiency respectively daily.
The Lagos State Government on Friday inaugurated aCritical Care Unit (CCU) at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja as part of its efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the state.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, said the facility would help to discourage Nigerians from going abroad to seek medical care.
Physiotherapist laments low recognition, poor remuneration for profession
A Physiotherapist, Professor Rufus Adedoyin, on Sunday said physiotherapists were still unrecognised in the medical profession, in spite of the major role they played in the overall wellbeing of individuals.
Adedoyin, the Chairman, Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy Cardiopulmonary Specialty Group, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Health professionals and specialists in various medical fields are set to brainstorm in a conference on curbing Nigeria’s high Medical tourism, one of vexatious issues in Nigeria’s health sector.
In a statement made available to newsmen, a neurosurgeon and advocate for reversing medical tourism in Nigeria, Dr Biodun Ogungbo, said the theme of the conference coming up at the Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, 20th July, 2016, is “Reversing Medical Tourism: strengthening local capabilities, and encouraging foreign collaborations”.
Head of Nutrition, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Chris Osa Isokpunwu, has said. Nigeria needs over $912 million to implement its National Nutrition Intervention Plan to check the menace malnutrition resulting in high rate of infant/mother mortality in the country.More...
Discussions at the ongoing AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, have focused on the dearth of homegrown scientific solutions to HIV/AIDS on the continent. This comes as participants at the conference say that many of the breakthroughs in the treatment and control of the viral disease are coming from abroad instead of within.
According to them, donors from the United States of America and other developed nations commit more funds and resources to HIV/AIDS programmes compared to governments in Africa, the region that is most affected by the disease.
The Federal Government has announced that it is set to carry out 10,000 subsidised surgeries on indigent Nigerians which will include cleft lip and palate repairs, myomectomy, hysterectomy and Vessico-Vagina Fistula (VVF) amongst others in 46 tertiary institutions.
Also, there will be treatment of 200,000 severely malnourished children categorised under weight loss, stunted growth as well as poor resistance to infection as the devastating health effect of the condition, especially on their physical and intellectual growth needs to be tackled.
About 17 Health Management Organisations (HMOs) under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have been delisted, Mrs Ahunna Ochor, the Coordinator of the scheme in Enugu State, has said.
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, Ochor said the affected HMOs could not provide quality health to enrollees.
The Plateau State Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to establish a state health insurance agency to promote healthcare services.
