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‘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.
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.
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Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State on Tuesday signed the Contributory Health Care Management Bill 2019 and three others. The others are the Gombe State Hospitals Services Management Board Bill, the Gombe State Council on Public Procurement Bill and the Public Procurement Bureau Bill.
Baby Of The Year: Minister Donates Items To 120 Babies In Abuja
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, on Wednesday, donated baby items and cash to 120 babies delivered in selected Primary Health Care Centres across the six Area Councils of the territory as part of activities to celebrate the New Year.
Making the donation in Chikuku Primary Health Care Centre of Kuje Area Council, the minister described the successful delivery as a bundle of joy, while praying that joy would continue to radiate in the territory in 2020 and beyond.
Still in the spirit of the New Year celebration, Nigerians, including health experts, want government to prioritise healthcare in 2020, as this will improve the country’s health indices and address issues in the sector, Martins Ifijeh writes.
While the beginning of every year comes with celebrations and stocktaking on successes and challenges made in the previous year, it is also a time for renewed hopes and expectations; a time to set goals and resolutions, and expect to meet them by the end of the year.
Lagos First Lady welcomes first babies of year 2020 in four Lagos hospitals
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Wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, today, welcomed and presented gifts items to the first babies of the year in four state-owned health facilities. The facilities include Ijede General Hospital, Agbowa General Hospital, Ketu-Ejirin General Hospital and Lagos Island Maternity Hospital.
A baby boy who weighed 2kg delivered at exactly 12. 01 a.m. to the family of Mr and Mrs Bukola Agede is the first baby of the year at Ijede General Hospital, Ikorodu. Another baby, a female, delivered at 12. 07 a.m by Mrs Agbor Beauty is the first baby of the year in Agbowa General Hospital also in Ikorodu.
