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About 40,000 unidentified HIV infected persons have been discovered across the 13 local government areas and 18 development areas of Nasarawa State.
An implementing partner, Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative, revealed this in Lafia at the end of a five-day workshop to develop 2020 annual operational plan on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Akwanga Local Government Area of the state. The Institutional Capacity Strengthening Advisor of AHNi, in charge of North-Central, Dr Terfa Kene, said the group was working to identity the 40,000 HIV infected persons who had refused to present themselves for testing.
As part of the effort towards delivering quality healthcare service to the people of Lagos State and environs, the board and management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), has signed a Private Public Partnership (PPP) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lordus Medical and Surgical Supply Company to ensure uninterrupted gas supply is readily available in the hospital.
The Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, expressed optimism on the positive results expected from the gas production project,
Many young Nigerians have been hospitalised or died due to Colon Cancer. Why is this so? Nobody likes to talk about bowel movements or cancer and nobody wants to get a colonoscopy. Still, according to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women.
That makes it a subject worth discussing. Although some people find it embarrassing, it is essential to become knowledgeable about colon cancer and to test for the disease.
The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Monday, commissioned its N127million newly renovated and equipped intensive care unit and promised Nigerians near-zero death cases in critically ill patients that access treatment at the hospital. UCH’s Chief Medical Director, Professor Abiodun Otegbayo, said these will prevent cases of needless deaths from lack of basic equipment at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
He said the renovated right wing of the hospital’s ICU was last functional about 36 months but currently has seven ventilators, six multi-channel invasive monitors, infusions pumps, six electric beds and other appliances to make it function at the world-class level.
Sensitisation On Essential Family Practices Will Improve Child Health, Reduce Mortality Rate ― UNICEF
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The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says its sensitisation on essential family practices in Imo communities is to improve the health of children and reduce infant morbidity rate.
Mrs Margaret Ayoka, the Director Primary Healthcare in Imo State Ministry of Health, said this at a sensitisation meeting of UNICEF and women of Amator Amuzu, Aboh Mbaise, held at the UNICEF Experimental School, Central School (1) in Aboh Mbaise Local Government area. The programme was held in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Owerri. Ayoka spoke extensively on the five essential family practices which are exclusive breastfeeding, immunisation, proper disposal of faeces, hand washing and anti-natal care for pregnant women.
We Are Tired Of 50 Per Cent Salary At Local Govt Level, Health Workers Tells Gov Bello
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The National Vice President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Onuh Edoka has called on the Kogi State governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello to henceforth begin the full payment of health workers salaries in the Local government with immediate effect.
Comrade Edoka made the call at the weekend during the inauguration of the caretaker committee, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Kogi State chapter. He said local government workers under CONHEALTH have been receiving 50 percents salary, while that of the state were receiving 78 per cent.
Immunization, foundation of Primary Health Care system in Nigeria
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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency( NPHCDA), says immunization is the foundation of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in the country.
Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director NPHCDA said this at the Expanded Interagency Coordination Conmittee (ICC) to review Nigeria’s Strategy on Immunization and Primary Health Care System Strengthening (NSIPSS) on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that meeting was the first high-level gathering by GAVI Board and Alliance Gavi since the inception of NSIPPS accountability framework.
Kidney Diseases: Borno governor directs center to offer free dialysis
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The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday directed the state’s newly established kidney centre to offer free dialysis to patients. The governor also wants the state health experts and science educationists to carry out research on why kidney failures have been on the rise in the state of late.
Mr Zulum, a professor, gave this directive when he visited the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital where the new kidney centre was set up early this year by his predecessor, Kashim Shettima, who is now a senator. Touring the the facility, the governor expressed delight over the centre’s commencement of dialysis for patients.
The Chief Executive Officer, Rejuvenate 360 Limited, Onyekachi Agudosi has called on the Nigerian government and other stakeholders to digitalise healthcare system, as this would help the country achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
He said the role of digitalisation cannot be over emphasised, and that there was need to push the conversation forward to place Nigeria and Africa on the map of global healthcare industry.
Lagos – The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, says that clinical process in the hospital will be fully digitalised by 2020. Fabamwo disclosed this on the sidelines of the 1st LASUTH Christmas Concert on Wednesday in Lagos.
Fabamwo said that LASUTH would use technology to boost its efficiency and ensure better patient management as well as care in its delivery of quality healthcare services to citizens. “In the area of infrastructure, we hope to complete the digitalisation process that we started.
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HIV Burden in Nigeria Will Be 90% Under Control Soon, Says NACA DG
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The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr. Gambo Aliyu has stated that very soon, the country’s HIV burden will be brought under control to at least 90 per cent.
Speaking during the unveiling of NACA’s Southwest Zonal Office in Lagos recently, he said he said the country has done remarkably well in stemming the tide of HIV in the last 15 years resulting in reduction of the prevalence of the disease. “Now we are focusing on ensuring that HIV burden is 90 per cent under control in the country.
The Federal Ministry of Health says it will implement the 2020 National Oral Health Policy, which will address the burden of oral diseases in the country. An oral health policy helps to harness political, economic and socio-cultural factors at the individual, family, community, national and international levels.
Dr Bola Alonge, Head of Dentistry Division in the ministry gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Alonge said that stakeholders had on Dec. 17, reviewed the draft policy that was developed in 2012 and expired in 2015.
Health workers to FG: Scrap plan to concession, privatize Federal health institutions
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ONE of the most pressing issues in the Nigerian health sector in 2019 is the concessioning and privatisation of the major Federal Health Institutions in the country.
The development has elicited concerns among stakeholders in the industry and as 2019 draws to a close, health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, JOHESU/AHPA, called for scrapping of the consession plan. In an open letter to President Mohammadu Buhari, JOHESU/AHPA –
The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Prof Tokunbo Fabamwo has called on employers and employees to make the working environment as healthy as possible.
Fabamwo said that unhealthy working environment can provoke some illnesses that are life threatening and as such organisations must do everything within reach to ensure people derive job satisfaction. Speaking in Lagos during a 2-day annual retreat of the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, Fabamwo who was Guest Speaker said that every organisation needed to put in place health screening mechanism to ensure workers are screened regularly for their good health.
