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The Federal Government has inaugurated a committee to supervise the $500 million grant disbursement to the 36 states of the federation and FCT to address maternal and child health challenges in the country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, inaugurated the committee during a retreat organised by the federal programme management unit of the Saving One Million Lives (SOML) Programme for Results (PforR) on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Federal Government has approved Sayana Press injectable contraceptive for self-injection by users, a change which advocates hope will improve access to the product.
The United Kingdom has already approved self-injection. Other countries are considering doing the same.
Consultant, Public Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Dr. Bodeno Ehis, says no fewer than 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed yearly in Nigeria.
In a speech entitled: “Cancer Awareness and Prevention’’at a lecture in honour of the late Mrs. Omawunmi Udoh, a lawmaker in Delta State House of Assembly on Sunday in Warri, he observed that the figure accounted for 12.5 per cent globally.
Over 1,222 students of Queens College (QC) in Yaba, Lagos State have been reportedly treated at the school’s clinic for abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
In a report by SaharaReporters, a recent laboratory report shows that since the beginning of January 2017, several students of the institution have been treated for various pipe borne water and other diseases.
Akwa Ibom is to begin its first-ever survey of HIV/AIDS statewide to fill gaps in its data about the condition. Some 3,257 households and 16,936 individuals, including 7,791 children, are mapped to be sampled across all 31 local government areas of the state starting on April 1.
The survey is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with technical support from FHI360 under a project called Strengthening Integrated Delivery of HIV/AIDS Services (SIDHAS).
The United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has renewed its commitment to support the Nigerian health sector towards improving maternal and child health, strengthening immunization and revitalization of Primary Healthcare system in the country.
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Wednesday solicited the assistance and cooperation of the World Bank to boost delivery of healthcare service in the state.
Akeredolu made the appeal when he received Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) comprising National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, World Bank, among others in Akure. He expressed interest to work with the World Bank while appreciating its efforts in healthcare so far.
The health-at-your-door step policy of the Imo State Government has improved tremendously as the health facilities provided by the government has imparted on the lives of the citizens as indigent patients access healthcare at no cost to them, even some minor and major surgeries are conducted free of charge.
Any parent or caregiver, who prevents a child from receiving the polio vaccine, risks a two-year jail term, an official of a Niger State Government agency said on Monday in Minna.
Dr. Yahaya Nauzo, the Executive Director of the states Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).`The law establishing the SPHCDA, specifically sections 23 to 28, has made the rejection of immunisation services a criminal offence. Such offenders are liable to two years jail term, or a fine of N50,000, or both, he said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that cancer killed no fewer than 8.8 million people every year. According to figures from WHO, each year, 8.8 million people die from cancer, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.
The figure WHO said is so high that is accounts for two and a half times more people killed than those who die from HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
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Oyo State government has said that it is to flag off its free ambulance and mobile healthcare services as part of its holistic approach to ensuring a robust health care service in the state.
Federal government has cited a GeneXpert machine to help detect cases of tuberculosis in the newly opened model primary health care centre at Kuchingoro, a slum neighbourhood of Abuja.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has partnered with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to implement reactive Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) vaccination in states that have crossed epidemic threshold.
The Centre, in its weekly report stated that almost 2000 suspected cases of meningitis have been reported with 269 deaths in 15 states across Nigeria. The report revealed that, confirmed cases are being treated at identified treatment centres in two states (Zamfara and Katsina) as necessary supportive management also instituted and request has been made to the NPHCDA for reactive vaccination campaign in Zamfara State.
Following allegations of financial improriety leveled against the National Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi Lagos, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Monday, set up an ad hoc panel consisting of some members of its members to look into it.
The allegations, according to a query from the Office of Auditor General of the Federation to the House, includes the unclear destruction of 86 different types of drugs costing N406, 103. 90k expired in 2011 and the controversial offsetting of medical bills in the hospital, totalling N638, 380.
