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The Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Josephat Akabuike, has said that the bill on the State Health Insurance Scheme in the House of Assembly when passed into law will guarantee affordable and quality health care for the citizens.
Nigeria should work towards striking a balance between the number of people travelling in and out of the country for medical treatment, experts have advised.
A head of next week's election, the state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has called on the governorship candidates to address the challenges facing the health sector.
Nigeria Healthwatch has said most health related data about Nigeria are incorrect and misleading, making policies on healthcare difficult to implement. The consultant to Nigeria Healthwatch, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor who spoke to Daily Trust in Abuja on Monday after a Press Briefing ahead of its second annual flagship event; “The Future of Health” Conference with the theme: “Health meets Tech”.
He said “there are a lot of challenges with data collection in Nigeria because data collected in the country were paper based. “What we do is we design questionnaires and people go around to fill it, there is always errors with that”, the medical expert noted. “What technology does is that it cuts out the errors and makes the process of transferring data fast because it’s done electronically”, he added.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says there is no vaccine that is clinically proven to be effective in the prevention of Lassa fever at the moment. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Chief Executive Officer of NCDC told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the only medical tool available to combat the disease for now was called Ribavrin.
According to Ihekweazu, Ribavrin is a medicine if given early to patients who are infected with Lassa will protect, prevent death as well as further spread.
As part of the efforts to regulate the drug distribution system in the country, Registrar of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Elijah Mohammed, has disclosed that come 2017, all open drug markets would be closed down.
At the investiture and awards ceremony of the Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy (NAP) in Lagos, Mohammed, said government would effect a big change in the drug distribution network by next year.
he Management of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), has threatened to stop the feeding of in-patients, if complaints against the gesture persisted.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof. Edmund Banwat, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos, on Wednesday, that the initiative, which was heavily subsidised by the hospital, might stop, if patients were not appreciative.
The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has threatened to go on another round of nationwide strike if persecution of its members in some hospitals continued, the National President of the Association, Dr. Muhammad Adamu Askira, has said.
As this year’s World Heart Day holds tomorrow, Cardiologists have raised alarm over imminent epidemic of heart failure among Nigerians even as the World Heart Federation, WHF, called for action to prevent 80 percent of premature deaths from Cardiovascular Diseases, CVDs annually. 
Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than six million deaths a year. More...
Minister calls for collaboration to attain Universal Health Coverage
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has called for increased collaboration by stakeholders in the health sector to attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria.
Adewole made the call at the 2nd Annual Implementation Science Conference organised by Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, will on Oct. 4, launch the first National HIV quality improvement projects in Abuja.
Mr Dennis Mordi, the Communication Manager, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Country Director, Bill and Melinda Gates, Mrs. Mairo Mandara, has urged stakeholders and technologists to consider use of language peculiar to different regions of the country, as that is the best way technology could serve the rural populace who do not understand the English Language.
Making a presentation at the just concluded Annual Health Watch Conference in Abuja; the director reasoned that language barrier was one thing that could useless the breakthrough of technology as far as health was concerned.
New Initiative Launched To Tackle Cardiovascular Disease, The World’s Number One Killer
“Global Hearts”, a new initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched on the margins of the UN General Assembly, aims to beat back the global threat of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes - the world’s leading cause of death.
