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The Medical Director (MD), Federal Medical Centre(FMC), Keffi, Nasarawa State, Dr. Joshua Giyan–Ndom has called on health workers in the country to respect the rights of patients to medical care and stop incessant strike actions to press home demands for improved welfare packages.
Giyan –Ndom made the call yesterday while addressing newsmen at the medical facility in Keffi, Keffi local government area of the state.
The World Health Organization has congratulated Thailand as the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
Vice President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele Monday expressed disappointment at the news of President Muhammadu Buhari’s10-Day medical trip to London for an Ear, Nose and Throat, E.N.T, infection, saying, “it as a tragic blot on Nigeria’s collective professional and National image.”
The former President, Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, who condemned frequent medical trip by government officials, said Nigeria has suffered a great loss to medical tourism in recent past.
In line with its commitment to resuscitate 10, 000 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across wards in Nigeria, the federal government has urged Tertiary healthcare institutions across the nation to look more in the area of Public Private Partnership as a necessary tool for more development. 
The registrar and chief executive officer of the Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria, Dr. Abdulmumini A. Ibrahim has said that doctors trained in Nigeria are qualified and can practise anywhere in the world.
He made the remark yesterday, while fielding questions in his office.
The advocacy journey to convince our past and current ministers of health to establish a mechanism that will promote transparency and accountability in the health sector has been on for a while now. We have experienced hopes and hiccups but the civil society organizations have remained resolute.
Blood transfusion saves lives and helps improve the health of patients, but to achieve this, the blood must be safe. The need for transfusion amongst Nigerians is high, and this is upped with casualties from bomb blasts, insurgency, communal crises and accidents, among others. However, the Nigerian government has neglected its role in ensuring blood safety in thehealth care system.
Blood safety, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) encompasses actions aimed at ensuring that everyone has access to blood and blood products that are as safe as possible; available at reasonable cost, adequate to meet the needs of patients, transfused only when necessary, and provided as part of a sustainable blood programme within the existing health care system.
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to unite to wage war against cancer. Ambode made the call in Ikeja at a special luncheon to raise funds for the provision of three Mobile Cancer Centres across the three Senatorial Districts in the state.
The event, tagged #GivingTuesday" and put together by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP-Nigeria), held as Ambode turned 53.
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMSLN) on Tuesday urged government at all levels to provide adequate security for all categories of health workers.
Alhaji Tosin Raheem, the National President of the association, made the call at a ``Day of Tributes and Prayer’’ for the late MrsOlufunke Omotuyi, the Acting Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Medical Laboratory Council of Nigeria.
A haematologist, Dr Abdul-Aziz Hassan, on Tuesday said that Nigeria needed about 1.7 million units of donated blood per annum.
Hassan, the Head of Haematology and Blood Transfusion Department, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, made the assertion at a programme to commemorate the World Blood Donor Day in Zaria.
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The Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, Dr. Jide Idris, says the state government will sanction any blood bank or hospital that transfuses or gives blood that does not bear the state government's logo. 2,300 Children Die of Malnutrition Annually – Federal Ministry of Health
The Federal Ministry of Health on Tuesday said 2,300 children below the age of five die of malnutrition annually in Nigeria. The Head of Nutrition in the Ministry, Dr Chris Isokpunwu disclosed this at a media dialogue on child malnutrition organised by UNICEF in Kano.
The police have arrested a suspected quack doctor, Victor Akpan, in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja. PUNCH Metro learnt that Akpan, who had been running a private hospital for 10 years, allegedly operated with forged and stolen certificates.
As a quack doctor, he was said to have performed caesarean sections, removed fibroids and delivered pregnant women of babies.
Nigeria has developed a document detailing comprehensive and innovative strategies to facilitate the growth of the country’s healthcare system to meet global standards.
More than 50 top officials of Federal Ministry of Health and other MDAs have received a copy each of the 72 -page document entitled “Nigeria Benchmark Medical Zone (BMZ) Project”.
