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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.
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”.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, released a report stating that an extensive evaluation of coffee’s cancer-causing risk, which resulted in a reclassification, did not prove the beverage’s safety.
The report released in Berlin noted that the overall coffee drinking was evaluated as unclassifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans.
In a move meant to break the stalemate between the striking Nurses and the Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH, the Federal Ministry of Labour & Reproductivity Lagos State Office has moved in and intervened. A memo sent to Nursingworld dated 13th June and addressed to the CMD LUTH stated:
The natural molecule, n-acetylcysteine (NAC), with strong antioxidant effects, shows potential benefit as part of the management for patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Combining clinical evaluations of a patient's mental and physical abilities with brain imaging studies that tracked the levels of dopamine, the lack of which is thought to cause Parkinson's, doctors from the Departments of Integrative Medicine, Neurology, and Radiology, at Thomas Jefferson University showed that patients receiving NAC improved on both measures.
Botulism can be caused by foods that were canned or preserved at home. Maybe you’ve had fruits or vegetables that someone picked from the garden in the summer and jarred so they could be eaten during the winter months. These foods need to be cooked at very high temperatures to kill the germs.
Although person to person transmission of botulism does not occur. Botulism is a serious kind of food poisoning, it may sound strange, but you can be poisoned especially by food that was not cooked or preserved properly.
The family planning blueprint aspires to increase family planning use from 15 to 36 percent nationally by 2018. Despite the widely acclaimed benefits of family planning, the Lagos state family planning structure has over the years been marred with some challenges. ODIRI UCHENUNU writes.
There is no doubt that family planning and reproductive health services save lives. This is so because it allows women to decide the timing and spacing of their children and in return, it lowers maternal mortality, increases the chances of child survival and saves government funds.
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The Borno chapter of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) said its members would not participate in the nationwide strike due to start on Monday, June 20.
The state acting President of the Association, Dr Muhammad Abdullahi, made the state chapter’s position known in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday.
he government of United State has alerted Nigerians on the dangers of the “S” gene, saying that Sickle cell disease affects millions of Nigerians, as well as an estimated 100,000 Americans.
Speaking as part of activities to mark the World Sickle Cell Day in Abuja, Ambassador James Entwistle stated that as a result of its large population and location, Nigeria has the largest population of people anywhere with the disorder.
The Federal Government has ordered immediate sack of striking resident doctors in the country. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in a circular signed by Amina Shamaki, the permanent secretary of the ministry, directed Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and medical directors (MDs) of FG tertiary health institutions to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have “abandoned” their programme. Resident doctors in government hospitals had declared indefinite strike on Monday over issue bordering on their entitlements.
Officials of the Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria have blamed the activities of unskilled radiographers for the increasing cases of cancer and infertility problems in the country. 
