Category: Health
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Medical director tasks doctors on brain drain
The Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja, Prof. Saad Ahmed, has advised medical practitioners who had benefited from government’s investment in the health sector to reconsider their decisions to leave Nigeria for practice in other countries.Ahmed gave the advice at the Annual General Meeting and scientific conference of the Association of Resident Doctors…
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HIV/AIDS prevelance drops to 0.4 in Bauchi
The Bauchi State Government on Tuesday said HIV/AIDS prevalence in the state significantly dropped from 6.8 per cent recorded in 2001 to 0.4 per cent in 2019. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Aliyu Maigoro, made the disclosure in Bauchi on Tuesaday at an event to mark World AIDS Day, annually celebrated on Dec. 1 to…
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World AIDS DAY: 1.6m Nigerians die of AIDS — UNAIDS
Dr Erasmus Morah, the Country Representative, Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), says no fewer than 1.6 million Nigerians died of HIV/AIDS since the outbreak of the epidemic in 1985. He made the disclosure during a Candlelight Memorial for people who died from the condition in Nigeria, organised by Network of People Living…
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National Hospital seeks cleft care inclusion in NHIS
The Chief Medical Director, National Hospital Abuja (NHA), Dr. Jeff Momoh has called for the inclusion of treatment for cleft lip and palate in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to relieve parents/patients who are mostly from poor homes, the difficulties associated with management of the condition. Dr. Momoh made the call at the National…
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Primary healthcare in Nigeria on the precipice, says forum of local govt nurses
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The National Chairman, Forum for Local Government Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria, Comrade Obafemi Agbede, has lamented that the Primary Healthcare system in the country is on the precipice, saying “things are fast falling apart, and if no concrete steps are taken to halt the fall, we can only predict a…
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Immunisation: WHO, experts call for safe resumption of services amid COVID-19 pandemic
As countries prepare for eventual COVID-19 vaccines, experts caution that falling immunisation coverage could lead to outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases. Consequently, WHO and immunisation experts in the African Region urge countries and health stakeholders to prioritise immunisation services, which have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect children and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases.…
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Heavy menstruation, major complaint in people with fibroids- Gynaecologist
A Lagos-based gynaecologist, Dr Wale Farayola, says heavy menstruation is one of the major complaints in people with fibroid. Farayola, told Our correspondent in Lagos on Monday that fibroids are non-cancerous growths made of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue in the uterus. According to him, fibroids can develop at any time during a…
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Italy’s top Catholic Bishop in intensive care with COVID-19
The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, has been moved to an intensive care unit due to a worsening COVID-19-related condition. The 78-year-old, who has been in a hospital in Perugia since Saturday, was transferred overnight following a change in his vital parameters, CEI said in a statement. CEI said that…
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Mental health facilities in Nigeria inadequate, says expert
Dr Joseph Okegbe, a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, said on Tuesday that mental health facilities and personnel in the nation are grossly inadequate. Okegbe gave the assertion in Calabar in an interview with Our correspondent. The consultant said there were only eight Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospitals in the country, which were not…
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FG vows to discourage physicians’ “brain drain” from the country
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government will do everything possible to discourage “physicians’ brain drain” from the country. Ehanire said this on Friday in Abuja after inspecting work on the new cancer centre at the National Hospital, Abuja. “I have heard the challenge of doctors leaving the country. We have…