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National orthopedic hospital organizes free surgery for cleft clip patients
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Respite is on the way for children born with cleft lips as the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu in collaboration with Smile Train now offers comprehensive free surgery and palate care for them to patients across South East region. The gesture was declared at a National cleft Stakeholders Forum, South-East zone, held yesterday at National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu.
With the theme, “planning for sustainable comprehensive cleft care activities”, the forum urged the people of the South-East to make good use of the opportunity provided by the free medical programme.
Experts seek intensified surveillance to avert second wave of coronavirus
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As part of measures to avert a second wave of COVID-19, medical experts have urged the government to improve surveillance and sustain internal vigilance. They noted that the government has done a good job in the fight against the pandemic, hence the need to sustain the efforts and also increase testing capacity.
Chairman, Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board, Professor Akin Osibogun, commended the proactive nature of the government of Nigeria and Lagos State in preventing disastrous consequences of the pandemic.
Medical Free Zone to save Nigeria about $1billion in annual medical tourism – NEPZA
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The Nigeria Exports Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) is thoughtfully considering setting up 15 Medical Free zones in at least 15 states of the federation, not minding the torrential pressures from the State governments lobbying to skew the location of the novel Medical Free Zones to their own states.
This disclosure was made by the Managing Director of NEPZA, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba when he was visited recently by the new President of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Dr. Pamela Ajayi.
Senate urges Ministry of Health to investigate unidentified ailment in Benue
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The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Arbovirus and Vector Research Centre (NAVRC) to investigate the outbreak of an unidentified ailment in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly also urged the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to promptly put up surveillance to contain the disease and see to the treatment of victims, while protecting others from further contracting it.
Persons living with HIV lament impact of COVID-19 on access to care
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“The lockdown affected my access to care because I cannot get to the clinic for my drugs and I was also scared of going to the hospital because of the pandemic.”
These were the words of Mrs Patience, a person living with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). Patience, mother of three, who discovered her status in 2011. According to her, the first time she found out, it was something else but she summoned the courage and with help from the family, especially the husband.
Enugu establishes malnutrition centres for children, women
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The Enugu State government in collaboration with the United Nations Children Education Fund have established three centres for Management of Acute Malnutrition in the state.
The establishment of the centres according to the state nutrition officer, Dr Henrietta Ugwu, was part of efforts to tackle rising cases of acute malnutrition among children in the state. Ugwu spoke Wednesday, at a one-day media engagement workshop organized by Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Enugu.
Reps Demand Better Salaries, Allowances for Doctors, Others
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The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, decried the mass exodus of workers in the health sector, calling on the Federal Government to discourage the migration of health workers to other countries.
The House specifically urged the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Productivity to “review the salary, allowances, and welfare of Nigerian medical practitioners.” The House also called on the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Productivity to “consider expanding the size of the medical practitioner in the country to create employment for the
COVID-19: US TO VACCINATE 100 MILLION PEOPLE BY FEBRUARY — OFFICIAL
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The US hopes to have immunized 100 million people against Covid-19 by the end of February, a top official said Wednesday, which is approximately 40 percent of the country’s adult population.
The push should start within weeks when vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna-NIH are expected to be approved. Each of these requires two doses, the second after three weeks and four weeks, respectively.
Kogi to train, employ 200 midwives, 100 nurses for rural areas
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has approved the training of 200 Midwives and 100 Nurses specifically for Hard-To-Reach rural areas in the State. This was disclosed today when the Director of Nursing Services at the State Ministry of Health, Mrs. Oguche Martina led other heads of Nursing and Midwifery
Institutions on a courtesy visit to the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo in his Office, Tuesday. Mrs. Oguche said the initiative was to bridge the manpower gap in the healthcare sector. She said the beneficiaries will be trained for two years at the Nursing and Midwifery institutions in the State, after which they will be posted to work in their communities.
Malaria gains threatened by access gaps, COVID-19, funding shortfalls — WHO
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A new World Malaria Report released on Monday by the World Health Organization, WHO has revealed that progress against malaria continues to plateau, particularly in high burden countries in Africa even as it states that gaps in access to life-saving tools are undermining global efforts to curb the disease.
The report which called on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria added that the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to set back the fight even further.
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World AIDS Day: New HIV infections, death not reducing in Africa — WHO
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With 1 million people infected and 440,000 lives lost to AIDS in the African region in 2019, the World Health Organization, WHO has raised the alarm that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths were not reducing fast enough to meet the Sustainable Development Goal target of ending AIDS epidemics by 2030. In the region.
In its message to mark this year’s World AIDS Day with the theme: ” Global solidarity and shared responsibility” WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti disclosed that children living with HIV are not being adequately identified for HIV treatment.
Nigerian govt launches health policies to address disease burden
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The Nigerian government on Monday launched the revised National Health Promotion Policy 2019 and four others to address the increasing burden of diseases in the country.
The other strategic documents launched are National Strategic Plan for Health Promotion 2020-2024, Knowledge Management Guideline for Health Promotion 2020-2024, Counselling Flip Chart on Key Household Practices, and Counselling Flip Chart on Family Planning/Child Birth Spacing.
We Are Prepared To Tackle Any Disease Outbreak ― FG
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The Federal Government has said it is ready to tackle any form of the disease in the event of its outbreak in Nigeria. Vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, stated this in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, at the commissioning of the state disease control and research center.
Osinbajo noted that with the completion of the state art of the disease control centre, diagnosing diseases outside the country would soon be a thing of the past. He described the centre as the largest in Africa and expressed optimism that with the quality and components of the centre, Nigeria is ready to battle any form of infectious diseases.
FG plans electronic records for patients, hospital finances
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The Federal Government on Monday promised to deal with administrative lapses in public health institutions by introducing a fully automated electronic management system of patients’ records and finances.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said this in a keynote address he delivered at a media engagement organized by the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja. He promised that the government would strengthen “a framework that mandates quarterly financial reporting on critical funding lines, in line with the provisions of the National Health Act 2014.”
