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A consultant nephrologist (kidney care expert), Dr Jacob Awobusuyi, has called on the federal and state governments to assist Nigerians battling kidney diseases because many of them die yearly as a result of insufficient funds to manage the ailment.
He made the call during the launch of N500 million kidney care trust fund by Remmy in Lagos, adding that 90 percent of Nigerians who start dialysis end up dying after a year due to lack of finance. According to him, an average individual needed N500,000 on a monthly basis for regular maintenance haemodialysis, and that many could not afford it due to out-of-pocket payment, hence the increasing mortality of kidney patients.
‘Clinical mentoring of health workers reduces obstetric complications’
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Medical doctors in general hospitals in Bauchi State have said that clinical mentoring of health workers of primary healthcare centres by the European Union and UNICEF for nurses, community health extension workers in some selected local governments has significantly reduced obstetrics complications, and maternal and child mortality rates in the state.
The project engaged the services of clinical mentors, including doctors and midwives from general hospitals and maternal child coordinators in the selected local government areas to train them.
On Treatment Of Gunshot, Stab Victims By Nigerian Hospitals
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It is one thing to make a law and another for it to be properly passed across a large country. Sometimes there can be a conflict of laws, which makes it very difficult for citizens to either interpret or even know what or what not to obey. Nigeria as a developing democratic country will take its time in progressing.
The issue of whether or not gunshot or stab victims should be treated by an individual, hospital or clinic before filing a police report is a problem Nigeria still faces. One could say that the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act which says that under no obligation should any individual, hospital or clinic administer any treatment to any bullet wounded person without reporting to the police first conflicts with that of The National Health Acts which says the opposite.
Fake drugs: Lagos medicine dealers get Dec. 31, 2020 deadline to shutdown
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The Federal Ministry of Health has extended the deadline for closing open drug markets to December 31, 2020 to allow stakeholders complete the construction of Coordinated Wholesale Centers (CWC) an alternative to open drugs market.
Upon the expiration of the new deadline, wholesale dealers on pharmaceutical products at various open drugs market across the country will move to designated locations tagged Co-ordinated Wholesale Centres (CWC) currently under construction.
‘Digitization’ll improve health outcomes, sustainability’
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The Chief Executive Officer, Rejuvenate 360 Limited, Mr Onyekachi Agudosi, has said that digitalisation will improve health outcomes and patients care. Agudosi said this during the inauguration of the Rejuvenate Learn Health Initiative recently in Lagos.
President of the Nigeria Medical Association [NMA] Dr Francis Faduyile recently raised alarm over shortage of healthcare practitioners in the country. He said only 42,000 doctors are available for Nigeria’s 200 million people.
He listed insecurity, unemployment, low remuneration, bad roads, poor job satisfaction and poor healthcare system as some of the reasons why Nigerian doctors and other healthcare practitioners are leaving the country for greener pastures abroad.
The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Professor Adekunle Ajayi, said on Sunday that the hospital performed free surgical operations for 160 patients as part of the hospital’s end of the year activities.
Ajayi said the beneficiaries included 100 cataract patients and 60 others with lumps and glaucoma, stressing that the medical facility would in 2020 consolidate on its gains in 2019 through value addition. “We conducted cataract operations for 100 patients, meaning that by the grace of God, we were able to restore vision to 100 potentially blind members of society free of charge.
Nigeria needs no medical tourism for orthopaedic injuries, says CMD NOHD.
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Against all expensive medical tourism, the Chief Medical Director, National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala-Kano, Dr. Mohammad Nuhu Salihu has disclosed that Nigeria has no business seeking Orthopaedic treatment abroad.
The Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon who spoke during the 60th anniversary of the hospital in Kano, said the country possess specialists that can compete with, and manage all sorts of Orthopaedic Injuries, like any expert globally.
Despite new claims of a significant reduction in national Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence rate in Nigeria, it is quite mortifying that the country still tops the mother-to-child transmission rate in the world.
This is evidence that a lot needs to be done before the epidemic can be brought under firm control. With global target set at 2030 for the elimination of the virus, it is doubtful if the country is ready to achieve that goal.
Omisore To Visit OAUTHC Jan 1, Present Gifts, Pay Hospital Bills Of Indigent Patients
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Former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, is embarking on his annual visit to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), IIe- Ife, Osun State, January 1, 2020, to present gifts and pay hospital bills of indigent patients.
The coming event holding at 7:00 am at OAUTHC premises will mark the 16th edition of the programme which has seen Omisore showing his consistent yearly generosity to the needy in Osun State. Apart from show of love to patients at OAUTHC, Omisore is also to pay a similar visit to children orphanage and welfare centre in the state, where he will also pay their bills and present the children with gift items.
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Neurologist explains how lower BMI reduces diabetes risk
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A Consultant Neurologist, Dr Olusola Talabi, has said a lower body mass index can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Talabi, in an interview with our correspondent, said an increase in body mass was associated with insulin resistance, which may lead to type 2 diabetes.
Dr Charles Ononiwu, associate Professor and Chief Consultant Maxillofacial surgeon, says poor oral hygiene can lead to cancer in oral or facial region of the body. Ononiwu, who is the head, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the National Hospital, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery specializes in surgery of the face, mouth, and jaws; it is an internationally recognized surgical specialty. He said that cancer formation was something that grows gradually and needed to be discovered on time for proper treatment. “When it comes to oral care, we know that infection generally is one of things that are responsible for cancers.
The Lagos State Government has appealed to health care providers, including public and private health facilities operating in the state, to stop rejecting gunshot victims and other trauma patients for want of a police report before commencing treatment.
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a statement released on Monday, lamented that some health facilities in the State were in the habit of rejecting or delaying care to trauma victims, which has in some cases resulted in avoidable loss of lives. Abayomi urged hospitals, health centres and clinics to offer immediate comprehensive care to gunshot victims and other trauma patients without hindrance, in line with the Federal Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017.
The Oyo State Government, in a bid to improve health care infrastructure, has procured a Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 1.5 Tesla for the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso.
The Managing Director of Swiss Biostadt Limited, Dr Emma Ajayi, said the new 1.5T MRI machine would facilitate health care delivery in the country, stressing that with the facilities available, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital had emerged as the leading centre for radiology and medical imaging in Nigeria. Ajayi, in a statement issued on Monday, noted that the hospital is now poised to take health care delivery in Oyo to the frontiers of internationally acceptable and reproducible health standards.
