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THE Federal Government has embarked on a reform programme in the health sector, through a new scheme entitled Saving One Million Lives (SOML) initiative in its bid to ensure the recent dwindling income from oil revenue does not have much effect on healthcare services in the country. This was revealed by the Chief Responsibility Officer and Team Leader of Mothergold, Dr Adesina Fagbenro-Byron, while speaking at the end of a two-day workshop entitled: Saving One Million Lives (SOML), which held simultaneously both in Ibadan and Enugu, recently.
Dr Fagbenro-Byron further stated that the global and local partnerships “are the proven way of leveraging resources to meet the human development needs of society especially in health and social services sectors.”
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The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to establish a DNA forensic centre, which it said will be the first of its kind in the country and will be located in a public health facility on Lagos Island. The state government justified the establishment of the centre christened the Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre (LSDFC), adding that Lagos “has continued to face more sophisticated crimes and criminals who are determined to escape the long arm of the law”.
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, disclosed the plan at a news conference he addressed at the state secretariat, Alausa on Tuesday, alongside the Solicitor-General, Mrs. Funmilola Odunlami, and Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Idowu Alakija, among others.
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The Kwara State government in collaboration with Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has launched the health workforce registry for proper planning and to rid the profession of ghost workers. Speaking during the launching in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Country Representative, Management sciences for Health, Nigeria, Dr. Zipporah Kpamor, said the application will help ministry of health to know the staff that they have by category,
how many doctors, nurses midwives, community health workers, environmental health workers, lab scientists and technologists they have and their area of specialisation.
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The Federal Government has ordered the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), Prof Anthony Emeribe to vacate office “with immediate effect’’.The directive was contained in a letter to Emeribe by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, dated Feb. 19, 2016. The letter signed on behalf of the Minister by Dr Patience Oshinubi, the Head, Department of Hospital Services in the Ministry stated that Emeribe should hand over to the most senior Director in the council.
It also stated that the position of the Registrar and CEO of the Council should be advertised.
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Lagos State Government, yesterday, confirmed that the blood samples of victims of the epidemic of febrile rash illness that claimed the lives of over 20 children in Otodo Gbame community in Eto-Osa Local Government Area of the state showed measles virus. Giving an update at a briefing in Lagos, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said all the blood samples taken to the Central Public Health Laboratory, Yaba, tested positive for IgM, a blood marker for recent infection with measles virus.
He added that four throat swaps and one blood samples investigated at the virology reference laboratory, LUTH, indicated the presence of measles virus through polymerase chain reaction, PCR, technique.
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Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:05
WHO Announces Support for Nigeria, Ghana in Fight Against Meningitis
WORLD Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced further support to Nigeria and other countries that have recently suffered outbreaks of meningitis C. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, who spoke at the Meningitis Vaccine Project conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, stressed the need to introduce the vaccine MenAfriVac into the routine immunization schedule for Nigeria and 25 other meningitis belt countries.
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Recent statistics published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveal that the life expectancy at birth in Nigeria is 53/55 years (male/female) while that in the United Kingdom is 79/83 years respectively. If the comparison is unfair because of the wide socio-economic gap, a comparison with another low middle-income country such as India perhaps may be in order. Life expectancy at birth in India is 64/68 (male/female), which is still over 10 years ahead of Nigeria.
While life expectancy alone does not determine the expected number of years an individual would live with optimal health, it is in Nigeria largely a reflection of the state of our health care delivery system. Nigerians are afflicted with diseases every day, many of them fatal because of inadequate attention.
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Friday, 26 February 2016 08:25
Osun Health Crisis: NMA Urges Buhari, APC to Call Aregbesola to Order
Following the withdrawal of medical services by doctors in Osun State and the ensuing health crisis, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to call Governor Rauf Aregbesola to order.The call is coming on the heels of the crisis bedevilling the health sector in the state, where doctors and the state government have had a stand-off for the past six months over doctors' conditions of service.
In a statement signed by NMA Secretary General, Dr Adewunmi Alayaki, the association condemned the current face-off between Osun State government and medical doctors in the state.
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Friday, 26 February 2016 08:12
FG Gives JOHESU/ AHPA February 29 Deadline to Submit Supporting Documents of Their Demands
The federal government of Nigeria has demanded that the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of health care professionals submit documents backing their demands.This was contained in a document obtained by Medicalworld Nigeria signed by C.C Dike a director at the trade union services and industrial relations department.
The memo was dated 24/02/2016 with ref number ML.HB/7410/T/133 and titled "Resumption of suspended industrial action by joint health sector unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of health care professionals
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There is panic among some students Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife on Sunday as malaria fever hit some of their colleagues.
Reports of strange virus went viral on the social media on Sunday but our correspondent, who visited the OAU HealthCentre learnt that although the number of students who had malaria had increased, the situation was not as alarming as it was painted. Our correspondent observed that some sick students brought to the health facility were treated and discharged.
Some of the students were seen vomiting but the situation was immediately brought under control as doctors and other medical personnel on duty attended to them.
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Thirty-nine new doctors were inducted by the Lagos State Government at the weekend. Daily Trust reports that the new doctors have undergone series of training spanning years at the Lagos State College of Medicine (LASCOM) within the complex of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. Speaking at the induction ceremony which was the 10th in the series, the Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun commended the state government for providing the necessary resources for the successful training of the new doctors and urged the graduating doctors to be of good conduct.
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Tuesday, 01 March 2016 13:58
Kwara, Indian Hospital to Partner in Provision of Health Care Services -
The Kwara State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Suleiman Alege, on Monday said that the state would partner Continental Hospital, India, to provide health care services to residents of Kwara at a subsidised rate.Alege said this while receiving some delegates from both the Indian hospital KIBS hospital, its partner in Nigeria that paid him a courtesy visit.
The commissioner said that the state government would welcome the partnership to enhance improved health-care delivery to its citizens.
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It is a well-known fact that the private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, nay Nigeria, is responsible for over 50% of healthcare provision.
This fact testifies to the importance that the private sector in health has garnered due to its contribution to nurturing healthy lives.
This importance is against the backdrop of lower government involvement in the provision and delivery of healthcare coupled with increasingly decreasing revenue accrual to the sector due to low government earnings from oil.
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New report on Africa’s immunisation coverage released by the World health Organisation (WHO) at the just concluded first-ever Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa held last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has ranked Nigeria among countries with unimpressive record in routine immunisation coverage.The country was not ranked among the Top-10 Best Performing Countries in Africa which included The Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania and Tunisia but ranked among countries still being ravaged by neonatal tetanus which has been eliminated in some African countries.
Similarly, Nigeria was also listed by the report as one of the countries yet to eliminate measles or introduce the measles- containing vaccine (MCV2) into her routine immunization programmes as recommended by WHO. The report estimated that 48,000 measles deaths occurred in the African Region in 2014, representing 42% of global deaths due to the disease.
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