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DCL Laboratory Product Limited has announced a collaboration with Sight Diagnostics Limited (SightDX) Israel, to introduce the Parasight Malaria Detection Platform in Nigeria and Ghana. Through this agreement DCL will market the Parasight Platform in the Nigerian diagnostics market, adding to DCL’s extensive infectious disease diagnostics portfolio in the country.
Speaking at a workshop on the introduction of the revolutionary malaria diagnostic machine in Abuja, Chairman, DCL Group, Mr. Charles Anyanwu, said the collaboration is aligned with firm’s purpose of advancing the world of health by bringing technology solutions for malaria diagnosis to West Africa.
The existing huge funding gap over 64 percent of the $336 million needed yearly to tackle Tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria is threatening country’s target of eradicating tuberculosis by 2020.
According to National TB Strategic Plan 2015-2020, about $2 billion us needed to tackle tuberculosis in the country. A breakdown of the amount indicates that about $336 million is needed yearly to tackle tuberculosis.
Eating fruits ripened with carbide is dangerous to health- NAFDAC Warns
In pursuance of its mission to rid Nigeria of substandard foods and drugs, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned the public to shun the consumption of fruits ripened with calcium carbide.
The agency gave the warning on Monday in Abuja in a statement signed by its management, saying that dangerous effects of carbide-ripened fruits include cancer and other illnesses.
Top World Health Organisation’s Officials to Meet in Nigeria for First Time
The top management of World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Policy Group (GPG) will hold a week-long meeting in Nigeria for the first time starting from April 10 to 12, 2018.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this in statement yesterday by the Director of Media and Public Relations, Ministry of Health, Mrs. Boade Akinola. Adewole said the GPG membership is made up of the Director-General, Deputy Director-General, six Regional Directors and Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Programme.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has called on National Assembly and Civil Society Organization to work in partnership with Federal Ministry of Health for the release of 1% consolidated revenue in the 2018 budget for health sector.
The Federal Government has said no fewer than 21 million people will be vaccinated against yellow fever across the country by the end of 2018 with support from World Health Organisation (WHO), Gavi – the Vaccine Aliliance, UNICEF and other health partners.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this while speaking at the launch of the Eliminate Yellow Fever (EYE) strategy in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, following the current outbreak of yellow fever in September last year, the high number of suspected cases, confirmed cases, and deaths recorded necessitated the campaign for mass vaccination against the disease.
Nigeria will not graduate from the GAVI intervention funds for the next 10 years as the ‘expiration term’ of the country has been extended to allow the country prepare to take over, the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole has said. The minister made this revelation at the launch of Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE), by the World Health Organisation in Abuja on Tuesday.
Present at the event was the WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Deputy Director–General, six regional directors, and Executive Director of the WHO emergencies programmes and heads of health parastatals in Nigeria.
FG regrets lack of basic sanitation facilities by 100 million citizens
The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed regret that currently, 65 million Nigerians were without clean drinkable water while estimated 100 million Nigerians still lacked basic sanitation facilities and 63 million did not have access to improved source of drinking water.
Amb. Samson Itegboje, Nigeria’s Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN who pointed this out at the International Decade for Action tagged: “Water for Sustainable Development” 2028 Held at the UN Headquarters, New York, said the government was making tremendous efforts to eradicate poor sanitation and excessive use of water.
In desperate need of surgery to alleviate the ravages of sickle cell disease and previous medical care that worsened his condition, university student Abiodun Bakare was about to give up hope when he discovered the cost of his surgery would be N18 million (about $50,000).
Bakare, his family and friends had done their research and discovered that a hospital in India could provide him with the care he needed, but the cost of the care and the journey was well beyond his reach.
Nearly 10,000 Chinese patients have received deep brain stimulation surgery since the first China-made brain pacemaker was implanted in a patient’s brain in November 2009.
“Deep brain stimulation surgery has become an important method to treat the patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease at the middle and late stages,” said Li Luming, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Neural Control under the Tsinghua University.
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The University of Ibadan (UI) on Sunday closed its medical school, directing students to vacate hostels by noon on the same day. The directive is contained in a release signed by the institution’s Registrar, Olujinmi Olukoya, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the release was, however, neither dated nor written on the official letterhead of the university.
The World Health Organisation, Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has advised Nigeria to speed up the investment of one per cent of its Consolidation Funds intended for basic health provision.
Mr Ghebreyesus gave this advice at the second THISDAY media parley in Abuja on Thursday.
Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has urged the World Health Organisation to make Nigeria one of the priority countries on its list.
According to a press statement from WHO, Mr Osinbajo made the request when he received in audience the Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Regional Directors and other Global Policy Group members of WHO at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday in Abuja.
FG pledges to aid Nigerians suffering from neurological development disorder
The federal government has pledged to invest in facilities that will offer supporting services for people living with neurological development disorder.
President Muhammadu Buhari made this pledge in Abuja on Tuesday at a public presentation and launch of a book titled ‘Neuro-developmental Disorders: Enhancing Everyday Life – Non-Existent Therapeutic Services in Nigeria, let’s do something about it’ authored by Austin Amaechi.
