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The partnership between Bauchi state government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has helped towards providing qualitative and affordable healthcare delivery in the state.Why Government Couldn’t Honour Pacts with Health Workers, by Minister of State
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has explained the reason why the Federal Government was not able to honour some of the agreements reached with medical personnel in the country.
The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, said on Tuesday in Abuja that Nigeria would end malaria mortality by 2020. The minister stated this at a town hall meeting and policy dialogue for good governance jointly organised by the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI) and Federal Ministry of Information and Culture.
“We have set some timeframe for ourselves. We are committed to reducing maternal mortality before the life span of this administration. “We want to end malaria mortality by the end of 2020,’’ he said.
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has commissioned the first state-owned emergency helicopter service in Nigeria. Ambode commissioned the project, meant for use in medical emergencies, on Thursday, August 11, 2016, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja.
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode commissions first state-owned emergency helicopter service in Nigeria on August 11, 2016. Ambode also said that the maternity ward of the hospital, popularly called Ayinke House, would be ready for use by 2017.
The recent outbreak of polio in Bormo State has highlighted the need to be proactive in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration. The Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, who said this, added that the board would step up its routine immunisation in the territory.
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.
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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. 
