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nasarawaNasarawa State government has resolved to sack any medical doctor who is on government payroll and still run a private hospital.

The state Commissioner for Justice, Abdulkarin Kana, who spoke to journalists yesterday after the state executive council meeting, added that they must close down their private hospitals. He said the action would allow them concentrate on their responsibilities and avoid diverting patients to their private hospitals.

fct ministerThe strike by Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Capital Territory Administration chapter, over non-payment of their COVID – 19 hazard and inducement allowances commenced on Tuesday with  compliance in different hospitals.

The strike action was meant to be in the 14 general and district hospitals in the FCT, including the Department of Public and Primary Healthcare. The NAN reported that there was compliance at the general hospitals in Kubwa, Wuse, Maitama, Nyanya and Asokoro. A source, however, said patients with severe cases were given medical attention by doctors who are not on residency.

presideNigerian presidency on Wednesday refuted a media report that an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Sarki Abba, tested positive for COVID-19.

“We react to the utter falsehood and disgraceful lies, a report by the so-called digital newspaper which, Wednesday, claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Sarki Abba is COVID-19 positive,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement.

nafdac destroysThe National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control says it destroyed fake drugs and counterfeit products worth N3.2 billion in Kano State in the last two years.

Mr. Shaba Mohammed, the state’s Coordinator of the Agency, said this in an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Kano. Mohammed said that the illicit drugs, fake and counterfeit products were seized during various joint operations performed by the operatives from the agency and other stakeholders in the state.

chloroIn the last few weeks, COVID-19 infection rates have been on the decline in Nigeria and many Nigerians are wondering if the country has reached the peak of the outbreak. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu speaks to Chioma Obinna on this development and challenges in the response.

He speaks on Nigeria’s case-fatality while maintaining that chloroquine is only used at the clinical trial level in the country. Excerpts: Current COVID-19  situation in Nigeria. 

updateThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced four deaths and 216 fresh cases of COVID-19, taking the total infections in the country to 54, 463. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday.

The health agency said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3 had continued to coordinate the national response activities across the country.

courteThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a guidance for clinicians and healthcare decision-makers on the use of Corticosteroids for patients with severe COVID-19. In a statement on Wednesday, Corticosteroids are listed in the WHO model list of essential medicines, readily available globally at a low cost. It said: “We recommend systemic Corticosteroids for the treatment of patients with severe and critical COVID-19. 

We suggest not to use corticosteroids in the treatment of patients with non-severe COVID-19 as the treatment.” The guidance, according to the statement, was developed in collaboration with the non-profit body, Magic Evidence Ecosystem Foundation (MAGIC), which provided methodologic support to develop and disseminate living guidance for COVID-19 drug treatments.

nigeria yetContrary to reports that Africa has for the first time identified resistance strain of the malaria parasite to the drug of choice, Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT), the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Emmanuel Ehanire, on Monday said a study conducted in three states of the country showed there is no such phenomenon in Nigeria.

Ehanire during a media briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said: “Concerned about the growing resistance of the malaria parasite to ACTs especially in Asia and lately in Africa, we conducted some studies in three different states in different geopolitical zones.

howThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Pax Herbals, and the African Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) have said that African Traditional Medicine (ATM) including herbal medicine has the potential to provide a cure for the deadly Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other so-called incurable diseases such as cancer, Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV), diabetes and hypertension.

As part of activities to mark the African Traditional Medicine Day (ATMD) August 31, 2020, stakeholders have examined the progress in

inducedSeveral reports have shown that the country’s Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response has slowed down due to fatigue suffered by frontline health workers, states, and the Federal Government-led taskforces on COVID-19 as well as continuous disbelief by some Nigerians.

According to a study published, last week, in Science News, “the unflappable health care heroes of the current crisis are beginning to crack under the strain.

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