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Suspend COVID-19 booster vaccinations until 2022, WHO urges countries
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The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for countries to avoid giving out extra COVID-19 vaccines until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose.
“I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world’s poor should be satisfied with leftovers,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists.
Against the narratives that cowhide otherwise known as Ponmo contains no nutritional benefit, a dietitian, Mrs. Oluwakemi Olanrewaju, has said it provides the body with important nutrients. In an interview with our correspondent, Olanrewaju said although Ponmo had low nutritional value when compared to other protein sources, it contained beneficial nutrients and contributes adequately to peoples’ diets.
She said, “Over the years, people have debated about the nutritional value of Ponmo. Growing up, we were told that it doesn’t contain any nutrient and it is just considered as skin but after so many scientific studies, Ponmo actually contains beneficial nutrients which provide the body with important nutrients.
Why women with polycystic ovarian syndrome suffer psychological trauma –Gynaecologists
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Gynaecologists have said that women living with polycystic ovarian syndrome suffer from psychological trauma because most people have misconceptions about the health condition. Polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly called PCOS, is characterised by the lack of or infrequent menstruation, growth of male pattern hair and severe acne in women.
The experts explained that the importance of PCOS as a public health issue prompted the decision to make the whole of September a PCOS awareness month. According to the experts, PCOS now accounts for 15 to 20 per cent of infertility cases in Nigeria.
Babies sleeping on stomach more prone to suffocation, sudden death, physicians warn mothers
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Maternal and health experts have warned mothers against making babies, especially those less than one year, sleep on their stomachs, noting that such a sleeping position makes the babies more susceptible to suffocation, convulsions and sudden death.
According to the experts, sleeping on the stomach is dangerous for the infant, especially when the baby remains in that position for a long time. The experts pointed out that putting babies on their stomachs to sleep comes with a lot of health issues, warning that normal breathing may become compromised, especially when the bed surface is too soft or woollen.
MDCN urges FG to declare state of emergency in health sector
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The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the nation’s health sector due to a number of issues. The MDCAN’s newly elected National President, Dr. Victor Makanjuola, made the call at a news conference organised by the National Officers’ Committee of the association on Sunday in Ibadan.
Makanjuola said that members of the association, at the 12th Biennial Delegates Meeting, were alarmed by the exodus of medical doctors, spate of insecurity, poor welfare of members and lack of modern facilities, among other issues.
FG to recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 doctors
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The Federal Government will recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country. Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja.
He explained that affected doctors wrongly benefitted from Medical Residency Training Fund meant for a particular category of doctors. He said the names of the doctors were uncovered after a thorough scrutinisation of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Directors of Federal Government health institutions for the training programme.
Compulsory vaccination: NMA, JOHESU kick as FG threatens sanction
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to all Nigerians. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the hint of possible sanctions at a press briefing in Abuja.
This was as a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday, barred the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, from enforcing compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in the state.
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, is set to resume as the Assistant Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World Health Organisation on November 1, 2021, The PUNCH has learnt.
This was disclosed in a letter signed by the WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. The letter, which was sighted by our correspondent was addressed to all staff members of the organisation.
Lagos leads as NCDC reports 582 new COVID-19 cases, 11 deaths
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Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory and 14 other states reported 582 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to figures released on Thursday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The health agency also reported 11 COVID-19 related deaths. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Thursday. According to the agency, 582 new cases were recorded from Rivers, Lagos, the FCT and 14 other states.
An Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Family Health Department, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Dr. Kamil Shoretire says pregnant women with abnormally sited placenta could bleed after having sex.
According to him, this usually occurs when the placenta is sited very close to the mouth of the womb also known as placenta previa. Shoretire said some women may bleed during pregnancy depending on the location of the growing embryo or the location of the placenta.
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Giving under-five children whole nuts dangerous, can cause death, physicians warn
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Child health experts have cautioned mothers against giving their under-five children whole nuts such as groundnut, warning that children could choke to death in the process of swallowing the nuts. According to the experts, the household practice of giving whole nuts to children should be discouraged among mothers, noting that it is very risky because children have small airways.
They explained that because children play while eating, the whole nut can go into the narrow airway, adding that the children could suddenly choke on the nut or even end up with a health problem that might require a surgical intervention.
Health authorities in Guinea on Monday confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in the southern Gueckedou prefecture. This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country, and in West Africa.
Marburg, which is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola, was detected less than two months after Guinea declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that erupted earlier this year. Samples taken from a now-deceased patient and tested by a field laboratory in Gueckedou as well as Guinea’s national haemorrhagic fever laboratory turned out positive for the Marburg virus.
Stakeholders urge action to transform Nigeria’s health sector
Written by Super UserOver the years, the nation’s health sector has been beleaguered with a plethora of challenges ranging from brain drain of its workforce, dearth of infrastructure and reliable data/market size, lack of confidence in the sector, resulting in an alarming rate of medical tourism and other things which have affected health outcomes and quality of healthcare received.
With the private sector responsible for the provision of 60 percent of healthcare services in Nigeria, according to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) has tasked stakeholders in the private health sector on quality healthcare delivery and synergy in order for Nigeria to take its place of ride on the African continent, and attract investors to the sector.
Doctor urges FG to set up intervention fund for private health sector
Written by Super UserThe Medical Director of Eko Hospitals, Lagos, Dr Sunny Kuku, on Friday urged the Federal Government to set up an intervention fund for the private health sector to boost healthcare delivery.
Kuku made the call at the ongoing consultative forum organised by the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) in Lagos.
He said that the intervention fund would help to enhance capacity and support infrastructure in the private sector, which handled over 60 per cent of the health needs of Nigerians.
