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Measures to avert strikes in hospitals and other health centres have been muted, as the Institute of Health Service Administrators of Nigeria (IHSAN) organised the 2nd Run Professional Development Workshop, where experts from different specialities in the health sector converged to proffer solutions to such problems.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, to ensure investigation of an alleged embezzlement of N90m funds belonging to the scheme by a health management organisation.
With Nigeria having the highest number of cases of diabetes mellitus in Africa, Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, the World Diabetes Foundation and the Podiatry Institute, USA, have announced plans to organise its third annual five-day capacity building workshop on diabetes foot care.
The Medical Director, Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, Dr Afoke Isiavwe, said the workshop which will hold in Lagos from August 15th to 19th aims at empowering health workers with much needed skills to help prevent, identify and reduce the risk of diabetes-related foot amputations in the country.
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has explained reasons for fresh cases of polio in Borno State blaming it on impossibility of accessing communities to administer polio preventive vaccines from December, 2013 to end of 2015 as well as the earliest part of 2016.
He spoke on Sunday in Mainok Village in Kaga local government area, shortly before launching $1 million food and farming aide donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which targets distribution of food items and funding of farming activities to benefit 40,000 victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, who are being resettled to their communities.
The Federal Government has released N9.8b for fight the outbreak of polio in the troubled North-East region of Nigeria. The North-eastern part of Nigeria has been devastated by constant attacks from the dreaded terror group, Boko Haram.
Recently, two new cases of polio were discovered by the government in Borno state, which has been the worse hit by Boko Haram attacks.
Yellow Fever, Congo, Angola begin mass vaccination drive against epidemic
Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola began one of the biggest ever emergency vaccination campaigns in Africa this week, working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to curb a yellow fever epidemic that has killed hundreds this year.
Health officials expect to vaccinate 14 million people over the next 10 days including some 8.5 million in the densely populatedCongolese capital, Kinshasa, where the disease's presence has sparked fears of a far wider spread.
Despite the N3.87bn allocated to it in the 2016 Appropriation Act, lack of drugs and other essential medical items have crippled operations at the State House Medical Centre, The PUNCH has learnt. The centre provides medical services to the President, Vice-President and their families, aides, members of staff of the State House and other entitled public servants.
A medical doctor and three others have reportedly died of Lassa fever in Anambra state. This was disclosed in a one-day Lassa fever training workshop organized by the state Ministry of Health.
Cancre patients in Nigeria can now heave a sigh of relief as the Saudi German Hospital, Dubai plans to establish a $30 million cancer treatment centre in Nigeria within the next one year. 
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), yesterday revealed that while over two million people have been displaced by the crisis in the North-Eastern Nigeria, not less than nine million are in dire need of emergency relief.
Addressing Newsmen in Abuja, the United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for SAHEL, Mr Toby Lanzer, said the organisation was expectant for more aids from non governmental organisations and UNODC agencies, even as he noted that the rate of destruction in the crisis torn areas was alarming.
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UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in charge of Katsina and Kano States, Padmavathi Yedla, has explained that the solutions to high infant mortality rate in Nigeria are not expensive but they are not properly observed because social norms are opposed to them.
Yedla, who stated this at the weekend while speaking at her maiden meeting with Katsina newsmen, was disturbed by the high rate of infant mortality, particularly in the North. She expressed that even in the North with the highest rate of infant mortality; many women do not practice exclusive breast feeding.
The Federal Ministry of Health says it is collaborating with Delta Government to enhance disease surveillance and curtail the spread of Lassa Fever recorded in the state. Prof. Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
The minister was represented during the interview by the Deputy Director, Media and Public Relations of the ministry, Mr Olajide Oshundun.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Regional Director, World Health Organisation (WHO) AFRO, has commended the Federal Government for its prompt response and declaration of Public Health Emergency in Borno over recent polio outbreak.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mrs Boade Akinola, Director, Media and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja on Wednesday. Akinola said that Moeti noted the openness of the government in the overall handling of the process that led to the discovery of the two new cases.
The Delta State Ministry of Health has confirmed one confirmed person dead and 32 others on surveillance following the reported case of Lassa fever.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Azinge, in a statement on Monday in Asaba, said that the state recorded one death from Lassa fever after a medical doctor in the state died from the disease.
