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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.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.
Global health experts will be convening at the Endometriosis Awareness Campaign Gala Night, to brainstorm on new and effective ways of tackling the disease in adolescents.
Speaking during a press conference in Lagos, the Lead Medical Consultant, Endometriosis Support Group, Nigeria (ESGN) and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), NORDICA Fertility Centre, DrAbayomiAjayi, said the disease which is often misunderstood, can only be diagnosed through a surgical procedure called Laparoscopy.
Mrs Betty Anyawu-Akeredolu, the Founder and President, Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), on Wednesday said cancer was a curable disease if detected early.
Anyawu-Akeredolu, wife of Governor-elect of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), spoke at a cancer awareness programme held at the Seed of Life Primary and Secondary School, Eleyele, Ibadan.
The budgetary allocation to the country’s health sector would be increased to 15 percent in line with the 2001 African Union Abuja declaration, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho(APC, Ogun) said on Wednesday.
Drug counterfeiting is another form of corruption – Health Minister
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has described counterfeiting of drugs as another form of corruption.
Adewole said this during the destruction of fake medicines intercepted by the National Agency for Food and Agency for Food and Drug Administration in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Patients who have been scheduled for various surgeries at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, have expressed their displeasure at the hospital’s management.
Those who spoke with our correspondent on Monday complained that their surgical operations were cancelled because the hospital had run out of some essential medical supplies and consumables.
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Oncologist implores FG to set up more cancer testing, treatment centres
A Chief Consultant Radiation and Clinical Oncologist at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Festus Igbinoba, has called on the Federal Government to urgently set up more cancer centres across the country to help the growing number of Nigerians who are currently suffering from the disease.
He advised Nigerians to live a healthy lifestyle and stay away from cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol intake-habits that constitute health hazards. Speaking at the sensitization programme to mark the 2017 World Cancer Day yesterday in Abuja, Igbinoba who noted that cancer is not a death sentence, observed that over 40 per cent cases of cancer are preventable if people do the right thing.
Nigeria has inaugurated the technical and steering committees to drive the process of improving quality healthcare for mothers, newborn and children. The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, inaugurated the steering and technical committees in Abuja.
The inauguration of the committees was in direct response for the admission of Nigeria into the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) network on quality healthcare for mothers, newborns and children.
NAFDAC seizes fruit juice, codeine syrups, others worth N 2.5 million in Sokoto
The National Agency For Food And Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has seized assorted imported fruit juice, codeine-containing substances and other unwholesome regulated products worth over N2.5million in Sokoto State.
The state Coordinator of the agency, Hamis Yahaya, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Sokoto on Wednesday.
Yesterday the National Assembly commenced a public hearing on the proposed 2017 budget submitted to the legislature by President Muhammadu Buhar. It is important for the House to increase the proposed 2017 health budget especially in the areas of family health. 
