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Amid the hustle and bustle in Lagos, the delegation of some senior executive course participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) arrived the state on a study tour of its health sector. The visitors were all united with a mission – how to help the country evolve the best funding arrangement that can make universal healthcare coverage a reality.
In Lagos, the delegation’s first port of call was the state secretariat in Alausa, where key stakeholders and heads of strategic institutions in the state health sector had converged to brief the visiting public policy experts. The tour was facilitated by NIPSS, in collaboration with the Development Research and Project Centre, (DRPC) through Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PACFaH@Scale).
Medical experts have lamented the poor facilities and inefficient service delivery in public hospitals in the country. They decried the high cost of treatment in hospitals.
The medical gurus included the co-founder of Eko Hospital, Dr. Sonny Kuku; the Group Managing Director of First Foundation Medicals, Dr. Tosin Ajayi, and Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris.
The Imo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association on Wednesday called off its two-month strike after a meeting with Governor Emeka Ihedioha.
The Federal Government on Monday inaugurated five governing boards of the health regulatory councils and boards under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH). The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Abdullahi Mashi, who inaugurated the boards in Abuja noted that the inauguration was long overdue.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the marketing of the Caya contoured diaphragm and Caya Gel, making this nonhormonal family planning method choice available for women in Nigeria for the first time.
The Kogi State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Idah, has secured full accreditation of four out of its five programmes for the first time since its establishment about 43 years ago. A statement by the Provost, Dr Nuhu Solomon Anyegwu, said the college received the letter for the full accreditation from the Registrar, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) on Thursday, that four of the five departments in the college had been fully accredited.
Anyegwu said the fully accredited programmes are; Health Information Management Department (5 years), Community Health Department (4 years) and Medical Laboratory Department (5 years). The Pharmacy Technician Department has already been granted approval to enlist students while initial provisional accreditation status was being awaited, he added.
The National Advocates for Health has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to all pending health bills passed by the National Assembly.
In a briefing yesterday in Abuja, chair of the group Prof. Oladapo Ladipo and vice chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Health Care Services, Mohammed Usman said the bills are the National Health Insurance Commission Bill which provides a policy framework that made Health Insurance mandatory in Nigeria, and the bills to establish the FCT Health Insurance Agency and the FCT Primary Health Care Development Board.
New Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has announced the beginning of free health care for children and elderly people in the state. Ihedioha was sworn in for a four-year term at a jam-packed Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri on Wednesday by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Paschal Nnadi.
Polio Vaccination: Nigerian soldiers to lead health workers to hostile locations – Buratai
The Nigeria army will henceforth conduct polio vaccination in locations in Borno State made inaccessible to health workers by the Boko Haram insurgency, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has said.
This decision was taken as the world looks up to Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa to do the needful for the eradication of poliomyelitis in the world.
There is nothing wrong with using bleaching cream. I love to be light skinned, and I changed my complexion. “I started using skin white cream at the early stage, but it was not effective on my skin, so I later added pills to it,” Sophia Udom, a 27-year-old lady, told this reporter.
The rising trend in the use of creams and other chemicals to lighten one’s skin is no longer news. Some Africans are in this race of skin lightening based on their belief that light-skinned people are more attractive and beautiful.
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Scientists Link Caffeine Intake to Complication in Blood Pressure Treatment
A new study investigated by researchers from the Research Institute in London, Ontario, Canada has found that patients who drink the occasional cup of coffee could be reducing the effect of medication for lowering blood pressure.
Studies have shown that caffeinated coffee can acutely increase blood pressure, but decaffeinated coffee does not. However, caffeine seems to be a major factor in affecting blood pressure, and experts have suggested that it is also a trigger for cardiovascular events.
The crisis between the management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has gained momentum as both parties trade words over issues surrounding the June 7 indefinite strike action.
The management of LUTH had debunked the allegations made by the association, comprising Resident Doctors and all House Officers in the hospital, stating that all demands put forward by the association were baseless and untrue.
Following the incessant use of Sniper as a tool for suicide in Nigeria, the Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Christiana Adeyeye has said the agency, along with other relevant bodies are considering modifying the container of the agro-chemical as part of plans to discourage its usage for such illegal purposes.
She said sniper containers could now be made very difficult to open, or may be turned into a spray rather than the liquid contents it is known for. Stating this during NAFDAC’s commemoration of World Food Safety Day in Lagos recently, tagged “Food Safety, Everyone’s Business” the DG said the use of Sniper and other agro-chemicals for the preservation of food should be discouraged as they contain substances harmful to the human body.
The new Chief Medical Director of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Prof Kayode Olabanji, has said that his priority is to rebrand the medical facility and to reposition it through quality service delivery.
Olabanji, a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, said, “One of the ways to rebrand the hospital is to improve the attitude and disposition of all health care givers towards their work and clients by developing a stronger sense of belonging and attachment to the institution.
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