THE Federal Government yesterday said it would no longer provide resources to any government official to travel abroad for medical attention on cases that could be handled in the country.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, in Sokoto, President Muhammadu Buhari, said his administration would not encourage expending hard earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad.
Of the $ 3.6 billion (N720 billion) required for the humanitarian response to El Niño, the health sector needs nearly $460 million (N92 billion), just as the World Health Organisation (WHO) requires $51 million (N10.2 billion) to provide urgent healthcare.
El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific, having important consequences for weather around the globe.
A new President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) emerged on the 28th April, 2016 at the 56th Annual Delegate Meeting and General Conference taking place in Sokoto.
Professor Mike Ogirima, who is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria; along with his Executives are saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the Association for the next 2 years.
A consortium of eight non-governmental organizations working for the promotion of children and women health under the aegis of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has expressed concern over the decision of the National Assembly to reduce the budgetary provision for polio immunization in the proposed 2016 budget. 
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have decried the absence of ambulances stationed along the Abuja-Kaduna highway for the purpose of prompt emergency care and evacuation of victims of accidents.
The Minister for Health, Prof. Isaac Folorunsho Adewole has officially confirmed his attendance as the chief guest of honour at the upcoming third Nigerian Health Awards.
While expressing gratitude for the invitation to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations committed to qualitative healthcare service delivery, he confirmed that the award is in line with the Federal Government’s agenda to save lives by ensuring excellent performance in the health sector as well as stimulate healthy competition among practitioners in the healthcare community.
Lagos State government yesterday said it is determined to end treatment of ailments overseas, saying the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) recently carried out the first successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa.
The state’s commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who stated this at a briefing said LASUTH has also carried out successful cochlear implant surgeries on three deaf patients without the support of foreign doctors.
With about 45.9 million Nigerians, (27%) of the population, including pregnant women and children harbouring the malaria parasites in their blood and at the risk of severe morbidity and death from the disease, the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole has advanced reasons why malaria has continued to thrive in the country, defying potent control measures designed to check its menace.
Speaking at a briefing to commemorate this year World Malaria Day in Abuja last week, the minister put the blame squarely on Nigerians, saying they constitute the greatest obstacle in the fight against the malaria scourge through their inability or failure to embrace measures aimed at defeating the ailment.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called for greater investments to increase the number of midwives and enhance the quality and reach of their services.
Medical and non-medical activities in all the government hospitals in Ondo were yesterday grounded as doctors in the employment of the government shut down all hospitals in the state.
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has called on both the Federal and state governments to, as a matter of national interest, check the migration of trained health workers to other countries with a view to curbing its underlying negative effect on the health sector. 
Contrary to some reports, the Global Funds for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has not stopped its grants to fight the diseases in Nigeria. But it admitted suspending disbursement to the principal recipients, the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA) and the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP).
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) said it rendered free medical services to more than 500 residents of Bakassi Returnees Camp in Yenagoa.
Mr Ifeanyi Onochie, the National President of NAS, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the exercise witnessed impressive participation by the beneficiaries who waited patiently to receive medical attention.
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to ensure full implementation of this year budget signed into law by the President last Friday.
AMLSN commended the President for signing the Appropriation Bill into law, following some hiccups that had preceded its signing into law.
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