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Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), yesterday besieged the Federal Ministry of Health headquarters at the Federal Secretariat complex, Abuja demanding the resignation of Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire.
The Medicines Patent Pool today announced that it has signed a licence with Johns Hopkins University to facilitate the clinical development of tuberculosis (TB) drug candidate sutezolid. The antibiotic sutezolid has long been considered a promising investigational treatment that, if further developed in combination with other drugs, could be used to more effectively treat both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB in patients.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has directed its members to stop attending to health needs of commissioners , special advisers and other categories of political appointees in Kogi State until further notice.
Dr Magnus Ogaraku, the Chairman of the state chapter of the NMA, announced this at a news conference in Lokoja on Thursday.
Partnership For Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has called on the federal government to as a matter of urgency reconsider its proposed 4.17 per cent budgetary allocation to health sector. PACFaH, a health advocacy project is calling on the government to allocate a minimum of 10 percent of its annual budget to health, noting that the government had not kept its part of the 2001 Abuja declaration which stipulates that a benchmark of 15per cent should be allocated to this all important sector.
The Rivers State Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday decided to settle out -of -court their differences.
The MHWUN internal crisis, which had torn the association into two factions, had persisted after some aggrieved Primary Healthcare workers ignored peace moves and went ahead to initiate litigation at the Industrial Court against the NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba charging him not to re-contest for the NLC’s top position.
Nurses and Midwives in two federal health institutions in Abeokuta, Ogun State– the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro – on Wednesday protested against the decay in the health sector and alleged discrimination against them by the Federal Ministry of Health.
A major industrial unrest is looming at the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, over alleged illegal recruitment (secondment) of senior staff, including General Managers from other organisations to NHIS, in flagrant violation of the Public Service Rules and other extant regulations governing the issue of secondment in the public service. It was gathered that no fewer than 15 of such recruitments from the Northern part of the country were done, including a 32-year-old woman, who was elevated to General Manager in NHISIn Kaduna Govt recruits 1,245 healthcare workers to reduce mortality rate
The Kaduna State Government on Tuesday said it would recruit 1, 245 healthcare workers to address the challenges of maternal health. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Paul Dogo, disclosed this at a one-day stakeholders’ forum in Kaduna.
The forum is being organised quarterly by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations known as Kaduna State MNCH Accountability Mechanism (KADMAN) in collaboration with the Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR).
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have warned the Federal Government of imminent court action and continuous solidarity walk if it refuses to heed the call to implement the National Health Act passed in 2014.59th National Council on Health: Councill Adopts Second Strategic Health Development Plan
The 59th National council on Health (NCH) meeting was flagged off on Thursday 26th, January 2017 by the Executive Governor of Abia state, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, at the international conference center Umuahia, the state capital. The NCH, represents the highest policy making body in the Nigerian health sector, which is statutorily convened at least once a year to enable stakeholders in health consider and deliberate on key issues of national importance to health.More...
Inadequate Funding a Problem for Our Non-performance- Kaduna Ministry of Health
Kaduna State Ministry of Health on Thursday said inadequate funding was responsible for non-implementation of about 65 per cent of its planned activities in 2016. 
An Abuja-based non governmental organisation, Gynae Care Research and Cancer Foundation, will be offering free cancer education, free cervical & breast cancer screening for over 200 women, and prostate cancer screening for 100 men, as part of its activities to commemorate the 2017 World Cancer Day.
The free screening exercise will take place Sat 11th February, 2017, between10 am – 6 pm at Suite 35B Silla Zeka Plaza, 29 Adebayo Adedeji Crescent, Behind Peace Mass Transit Plaza, Utako, Abuja.
The Chief of Communication, United Nation Children Fund, UNICEF, Doune Porter on Tuesday said that about 450, 000 children in the 3 states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states mostly affected by the crisis will suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2017.
In a release issued by the Agency and made available to LEADERSHIP in Abakaliki, Doune Porter said that the agency seeks $3.3 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in conflict and other crisis.
Scientists have identified new ways to provide vaccines against polio, which do not require the growth of live virus for their manufacture. Despite the success of vaccines produced from ‘virus-like particles’ (VLPs) for hepatitis B and human papilloma viruses, poliovirus VLPs have proved to be too unstable to make practical vaccines.
Now, a research team at the University of Leeds has found a new way to modify these VLPs, also known as ‘empty capsids’ by identifying mutations which make their structures sufficiently stable to act as vaccines.
