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Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has said that people who sell fake drugs should be killed. Obiano also described the sale of fake drugs as “the worst criminal act to humanity.”
The governor made the comments on Monday, January 23, during an accreditation ceremony in the Agulu area of the state.
Dr Nicholas Baamlong had a narrow miss with Lassa fever virus, a disease that’s killed many and is still killing. His patient was bleeding from orifices, one sure sign of Lassa.
“When we suspected that, immediately we called public health people,” says Baamlong, who heads a committee on control and prevention of infectious diseases as University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. “Before then we had to isolate the patient and do barrier nursing.” That’s caring for a patient but maintaining protective barriers to avoid infection.
Unless the proposed 2017 health budget is amended, millions of Nigerian children will end up dead this year from severe malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases, experts have proclaimed. This is despite president Buhari’s avowed promise that his government will ensure the provision of adequate healthcare delivery to Nigerians.Resident doctors’ strike tops agenda at National Council on Health meeting
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) are set for showdown talk on resident doctors’ strike with the Federal Government.
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the 36 states commissioners of health are meeting doctors as the 59th National Council on Health (NCH) began in Umuahia, Abia State, yesterday. The NCH is the highest decision making body in the health sector.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has directed its members to stop treating and administering medications on Commissioners, Special Advisers and other categories of political appointees in Kogi State until further notice.
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.
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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.
