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Singapore has reported its first ever case of monkeypox, brought in by a Nigerian man thought to have contracted the rare virus by eating bushmeat at a wedding.
Symptoms in humans of monkeypox — which is endemic in parts of Central and Western Africa — include lesions, fever, muscle ache, and chills. Transmission is usually via close contact with infected animals such as rodents and monkeys and is limited between people. It has only been fatal in rare cases.
As part of its effort in combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said the 2030 target for ending the scourge is attainable.
Speaking at a one-day training organized by NACA in Lagos, with the theme, New Trends in HIV/AIDS the Head, Research Unit NACA, Dr. Ogbonna Amanze said, as a country, we can achieve the target if we do the right things and out the necessary measure in place.
The first antibiotic was discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1909 and cured syphilis-infected rabbits. At that time about 10% of the population of London were infected with syphilis and there were no effective treatments.
Despite the tedious injection procedure and side effects, Salvarsan, together with the less toxic derivative Neosalvarsan, enjoyed the status of the most frequently prescribed drug until its replacement by penicillin in the 1940s. The postwar period was the beginning of a 20-year golden age of antibiotic discovery, with a large number of effective new antibiotics entering into clinical use.
Federal Government has pledged to support any individual or group working towards improving the community healthcare system in Nigeria, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, has said.
Adewole made the pledge during the official flag-off of free medical outreach organized by the Sarkin Shanun Jere Family in Jere Town, Kaduna State.
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has commended the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, for donating an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) equipment worth more than N70 million to Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos.
He noted that the donation was the biggest private intervention in the hospital, adding that it would replace obsolete equipment the hospital was using.
The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has called on the Federal Government to prioritize the health sector in order to save it from total collapse.
Fabamwo stated this in Lagos during the Ordinary General Meeting of the Nigerian Medical Guild, Lagos State chapter, held last Wednesday with the theme, Challenges of inadequate human resources in the health sector.
The Ondo State Government has said that it recorded 800 cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis infection in the state.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who stated this during the biennial general meeting of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, Ondo State chapter, held in Akure, capital of the state, also noted that tuberculosis had posed a serious challenge to the health sub-sector in the state.
Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, yesterday protested against the management of the hospital for ignoring their demands on adequate security and non-payment of their salaries for five months, among other issues.
Resident doctors of Anambra State-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital have rejected the new minimum wage offer presented to them by the state governor, Willie Obiano.
The Federal Government on Tuesday said that primary and secondary healthcare centers in the country have collapsed. Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, stated this on the floor of the Senate.
He also listed 14 states that failed to indicate interest in the basic healthcare provision fund created to enhance primary healthcare services. The minister was invited to brief the Senate on the poor state of teaching hospitals in the country.
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Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State has inaugurated a contributory health insurance program for the state with a commitment of the government to pay for the poor. While launching the scheme at the Government House in Yola this week, he said the government would support those who are unable to contribute due to financial inadequacy because the program is meant to would provide health insurance coverage for all residents of the state irrespective of their financial capacities.
The Kogi State Government has confirmed four cases of Lassa fever in the 2019 outbreak of the disease in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Saka Audu, disclosed this at a joint news conference on Thursday in Lokoja on “Flood, Lassa, and other Epidemic Prone Diseases”.
The briefing was organized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the state ministry of health and other related ministries on public health.
South African Doctor Cures Deafness With First-Ever Middle Ear Transplant
A team of South African doctors in the capital city Pretoria has been hailed as pioneers in the field of global medicine after performing the first-ever transplant of a patient's middle ear.
The achievement which used 3D-printed technology to reconstruct the broken bones of a middle ear is being celebrated as a long-term solution to conductive hearing loss. What's more, the surgery can be performed on people of any age, including newborn babies, curing patients of a form of deafness that is caused by physical damage or infection in the middle ear as well as congenital birth defects and metabolic diseases.
With a 23 percent drug abuse prevalence rate, according to a recent national drug use survey, Oyo is one of the states in dire need of multi-pronged actions by all segments of the society to curb the menace.
Realising that the task of reversing the ugly trend is so huge that it cannot be left to the government and its agencies alone, a group of community leaders, under the umbrella of Ogbomoso First Community Initiative (O First Group), has taken up the fight against drug abuse in the ancient town and its environs.
