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Health workers, under the umbrella of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), have called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the health care system, because the sector needs urgent revamping.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has commissioned a mobile clinic programme to provide basic and essential health care services to people, especially those living in hard to reach areas of the country.
The event took place on Wednesday at the State House.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Monday, published its first-ever list of antibiotic resistant “priority pathogens”, a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that posed threat to human health.
The list was released to guide and promote research and development of new antibiotics, as part of WHO’s efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines.
The Federal Government says it has equipped 1,000 healthcare centres for comprehensive HIV treatment in the country.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this at the Central Dissemination of the 2016 National Guidelines for HIV prevention, treatment and care on Thursday in Abuja.
At last, The Lagos State Government has announced plans to begin a soft launch of the much-awaited Community Health Insurance Scheme come June this year.
The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), yesterday , declared an indefinite strike action due to the inability of the federal ministry of health to meet the demands of the union.
The president, NUAHP, Comrade Obinna Ogbonna who revealed this to journalists said the union had waited patiently, shown enough restraints and had exhausted all other industrial means to ensure that the strike does not hold.
The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), with support from Abbott Nigeria Limited has installed two state of the art machines, Architect i1000SR and Architect c4000 to provide quality medical laboratory services at the hospital.Nigeria Will Save $1.5 Billion Yearly by Investing in Maternal Health – UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, on Wednesday said Nigeria would be saving $1.5 billion annually by investing in maternal health.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has restated his call for true federalism as panacea to Nigeria’s problems. He stated this while speaking at the Obafemi Awolowo University at a programme organised by the Faculty of Law. Mr. Abubakar said in a true federal system, the federal government would have little or no need for some ministers as their issues would be handled by the federating units.
“We have a government that gives power to the central government and leaves the federating units with nothing,” he said “The current structure can be called unitary federalism.”
The Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode, has stated that the present Federal Ministry of Health’s policy on no-work no-pay has greatly saved the health of most Nigerians, who otherwise would not have been accessing treatment due to incessant strike actions in the health sector.
He said it was heartwarming to know that most medical and health workers were beginning to understand that strike actions in the sector do not solve any issue, but rather affects patients negatively, with some losing their lives because of inability to be attended to.
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In an effort to ensure that government meets its commitment towards adequate funding of the health sector, the Partnership Advocacy for Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has urged the media to actively report issues surrounding health budget and finance in the media space.
The Bauchi state government has commenced the distribution of over one million antimalarial drugs and other medical consumables to healthcare centres across the state.
The Nasarawa State Government says incessant strike actions by health workers has truncated health activities in the state giving rise to poor health conditions of the people.
A bill for an Act to authorise the provision of free prenatal and postnatal health services for pregnant women in government hospitals has been stepped down in the House of Representatives.
The bill which was to be read the second time on the floor of the green chamber was not debated because copies were not made available to members on time in line with the rules of the house.
