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The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has urged the Nigerian Association of Nephrology to stop referring renal patients for transplant surgery abroad. Adewole said this at the opening of the 29th annual scientific conference and general meeting of NAN at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife, Osun State on Monday.
Primary health care workers in Rivers State have withdrawn a case they filed six months ago against the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over alleged neglect of welfare in the application of a harmonized salary scale for health care workforce.
The Nasarawa State Government has said that no fewer than eight people have so far died following the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. The Director of Public Health in the state’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu, made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lafia.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Monday canvassed patronage for Nigerian doctors, declaring their services better than their counterparts abroad.
Adewole said this during the commissioning of the Maternity and Neonatal Wards and Central Pharmacy Building at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife in Osun.
The Federal Executive Council has approved a new National Health Policy aimed at promoting the health of Nigerians to accelerate socio-economic development in the country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the FEC meeting, which was presided by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, sacked the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Theophilus Odagme. The news of Odagme’s sacking was contained in a statement issued by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Matters, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Wednesday said it had been established that the experiment carried out by a professor of veterinary medicine and clinical virology was illegal.Drug Insecurity Persists as Customs Implements 20% Duty on Imported Medicines
Most Nigerians may not be able to afford even essential medicines as the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) begins the implementation of 20 per cent duty on imported pharmaceutical products.
Workers of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, Kaduna State, on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest demanding for improved condition of service.
The aggrieved workers, acting under the umbrella of Joint Consultative Forum (JCF), protested against what they alleged as anomalies in the 2016 promotion and non-payment of accumulated arrears of entitlements.
Dr Clement Edet, Director, Planning and Statistics, Rivers Primary Healthcare Management Board says the state has adequate Primary HealthCare centres (PHC), but lacked facilities.
Edet disclosed this in Port Harcourt on Wednesday at a training workshop on “Healthcare financing.”
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Health workers under the aegis of the National Union of Allied Health Professionals took to the streets, in Abuja, on Tuesday, to protest what they described as rot in the health sector.
Specifically, the workers condemned the overseas medical trips by senior citizens of the country, saying if the health sector was running properly, Nigerian elite would not need to travel abroad for treatment.
‘We are in the next phase of the malaria vaccine trial’ – Bill Gates Foundation
The Director for Vaccines at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Orin Levine, has said that scientists are going to the next phase of evaluation for the malaria vaccine candidate.
Levine, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent in Lagos on Monday, spoke on the Bill and Melinda Gates 2017 Annual Letter. He said that experts, researchers and physicians at the organisation were working towards finding solutions to neglected infectious diseases killing children and adults in Africa.
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Yashoda Hospitals, India.LUTH Hospital inaugurates modern laboratory equipment in Accident, Emergency Unit
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Wednesday inaugurated modern laboratory equipment for its Accident and Emergency (AE) Unit for quick outcome of medical test and to save lives.
Prof. Chris Bode, LUTH Chief Medical Director, said that the laboratory equipment was part of the steps taken by the hospital to get “one-stop-shop diagnostic services’’.
