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In response to the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the country, the federal government has commenced a health insurance scheme targeted at ensuring that they get integrated into the larger society.
Speaking at the flag-off of the pilot scheme at Sabon Kuchingoro, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the acting Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced (NCFRMI), Margarette Essien, said 80 households of six persons each making up 480 persons will be captured in the first phase.
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered Barewa Pharmaceutical Company to pay a fine of N1m for the sale of a contaminated baby teething mixture, My Pikin, which resulted in the death of a number of babies in the country.
In a lead judgment read by Justice E.C. Iyizoba, the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which on May 17, 2012 ordered the winding up of the company and the forfeiture of its assets.
Ogun State Government has uncovered 30 unlicensed nurses on its pay roll. The Director of Nursing in the state, Patience Odutayo, who made this known, said some of the nurses had been practising without valid licences.
The nurses, she said, were uncovered at a recent verification of nurses by the State Hospitals Management Board in Abeokuta.
Workers Shut Down Health Ministry, Raise the Alarm over Corruption, Misconduct
There was pandemonium yesterday at the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Secretariat, Abuja as workers in the ministry shut down the ministry, preventing the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole and other officials from gaining access to the building for over an hour.
The protesters also tackled the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Amina Shamaki, whom they accused of corruption, highhandedness and gross misconduct since assuming office in the ministry.
The Ebola outbreak in Guinea is over, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, the second time the West African nation has been declared free of the virus. It has been six weeks since the last confirmed Ebola patient tested negative for the virus, according to the WHO report.
The Director General of World Health Organization [WHO] , Dr. Margaret Chan, has warned the world of the transboundary nature of diseases and infections, saying ‘few threats to health are not local anymore”
The Founder and Chief Executive, Haemophilia Foundation of Nigeria (HFON), Mrs Megan Buckie Adediran, has disclosed that about 70 million Nigerians live with the blood disorder called haemophilia.
Adeniran made the disclosure yesterday when she paid a courtesy visit to the corporate headquarters of LEADERSHIP Group in Abuja.
The Federal Government on Tuesday assured aggrieved workers in the Ministry of Health (FMoH) that their grievances were being addressed.
Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, the Head of Service of the Federation, told the protesting workers at the Federal Secretariat that a committee had been constituted by her office to study their demands and make recommendations.
The National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Zaria, today said it had developed a vaccine for Tuta Absoluta, popularly known as ‘tomato ebola’. The Public Relations Officer of the institute, Alhaji Bala Aliyu, told theNews Agency of Nigeria in Zaria, Kaduna State that an end had come to the disease, which had been ravaging tomato farms.
According to him, the Director-General of the institute, Prof. Idris Bugaje, has worked extensively to provide a solution to the menace destroying the tomato farm in the country. “This vaccine has been found to be very effective after undergoing various scientific testing,’’ he said.
A coalition of Nigerian-based health NGOs has called on the Federal Government to safeguard the achievements of the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria (GFATM) by finding the fund’s misappropriated money, blocking loopholes to prevent further underhand dealings in donor funds management and committing adequate local funding to TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria.More...
The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria(NARD) will begin an indefinite strike on Thursday, June 9, 2016. This was disclosed by NARD president, Muhammad Askira, on Tuesday, June 7, 2016, The Cable reports.
“Sixteen out of 58 federal tertiary institutions or centres were exempted from the initial centre based strike for the commitment of the chief medical director of the hospitals to implement the federal government’s directives,” he said.
American billionaire, Bill Gates is reportedly willing to invest N9billion ($50m) annually on the Nigerian health sector. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho made this revelation in a recent chat with Punch Newspaper.
On meeting Gates, Senator Tejuosho disclosed that he had attended a World Bank Programme in Washington DC, when he and the Health Minister, Prof. IsaacAdewole were invited for a sideline meeting which was organised by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Zamfara Government on Tuesday said it had procured malaria drugs worth of N120 million as part of its commitments to improve healthcare delivery in the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Sulaiman Gummi disclosed this in Gusau when he received members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the Canadian government in partnership with Taraba State Primary Health Care Agency yesterday commenced a free healthcare project tagged, ‘Hard To Reach.’
The project aimed at offering free medical services to children, women and the less-privileged in rural communities, with special focus on immunisation, polio, nutrition, malaria and community mobilisation on health matters was flagged off at Suriwa village, near Jalingo.
