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USAID re-launches $10,000 reward for whistle-blowers on fake malaria drugs
The office of Inspector-General (OIG), of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has re-launched its reward for persons who would help it with information on stolen and falsified anti-malaria drugs and other commodities for treating or preventing the disease in the country.
The reward had earlier been offered by USAID at the launch of the campaign in the country last year to help apprehend persons involved in falsification and illicit trading in malaria drugs and commodities funded by USAID.
The Nigerian Medical Association has warned that the Federal Government may not implement the National Health Act in 2017. Consequently, the association will today (Wednesday) stage a protest march in Abuja that will terminate in the Aso Rock Villa, where its leaders plan to submit a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Nigeria Medical Association, Bayelsa State chapter, has urged the Governor Seriake Dickson-led government to revive the Bayelsa Health Insurance Scheme. The NMA also urged the governor to take steps to join the National Health Insurance Scheme to achieve universal health insurance cover in the state.
Stakeholders at the 2016 Nigerian Medical Association(NMA) annual physicians week have demanded for a 15 per cent budget allocation to boost the country’s healthcare delivery.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme for this year’s celebration is: “Healthcare in a frail economy: Challenges and way forward’’.
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), desirous of re-positioning itself and all its principal Actors has decided to re-struture its insurance arrangements for better service delivery
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Bayelsa on Wednesday pledged to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to the people to cushion the current economic challenges.
The doctors assured the public that they were bound by their Hippocratic oaths to provide accessible and affordable life saving services to the society at large.
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) says there is no shortage of anti-retro viral drugs in Nigeria. The agency also assured that it is working to enhance distribution of the drugs in the country.
Dr Emmanuel Alhassan, Director Partnership, NACA, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja.
In Kebbi US doctors begin free surgery, treatment for cancer, diabetes patients
A 35-member medical team from America is providing free surgery and treatment of patients suffering from cancer and diabetes in Kebbi State. The state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Samaila Yombe, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday that the surgical operations were part of government’s efforts to provide effective service delivery to the people.
“The surgical operation is free; it is an assistance to patients suffering from various ailments who can hardly afford the cost of the treatment,” Yombe said.
Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.
A non-governmental organisation, Stand Up To Cancer Naija, has urged the federal government to include the treatment of cancer to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to enable more people have access to cancer treatment and management in the country. Worried by menace, the organisation organised a free breast cancer testing for residents of Abuja at the weekend.More...
Not less than 200 policymakers, development partners, public health experts and advocates from West Africa and around the world will gather on the 8th to 11th November to highlight the importance of addressing emerging health threats using a ‘One Health’ approach – one that takes into account the inextricable link between the health of humans, animals and their environments.
Ogun State medical doctors have lamented what they described as a very poor state of the health sector and urged the government to urgently act before the sector completely collapse.
The House of Representatives on Thursday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on malaria in the country. The call was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion on Urgent Matters of Public Importance by Rep. Abubakar Adamu (Niger-APC).
The house resolved that the government should mandate the Federal Ministry of Health to fumigate endemic areas to curb the disease in the country.
FG hails Nigerian doctor in U.S. for successful operation on unborn baby
The Federal Government has commended a US-based Nigerian surgeon, Dr Oluyinka Olutoye, who successfully removed tumour from a baby in her mother’s womb. In a statement in Abuja, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, said that the Nigerian Government and people were proud of Olutoye.
The statement was signed by Dabiri-Erewa’s Media Assistant, Mr Abdurrahman Balogun, on Tuesday. Oluyinka Olutoye Dabiri-Erewa noted that Olutoye and his partner, Dr Darrell Cass of the Texas Children’s Hospital, carried out the operation on a 23-week-old foetus in the U.S.
