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Cholera threatens 1bn people from Nigeria, 42 countries – UN raises alarm

Aminu Imam

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say 43 countries, including Nigeria, now face outbreaks as increasing numbers of cholera cases are reported. In an issued statement on Friday, the UN agencies said that after years of steady decline, cholera was making a devastating comeback and targeting the world’s most vulnerable communities. According to Head of UNICEF’s Public Health Emergency unit, Jérôme Pfaffmann Zambruni, “The pandemic is killing the poor right in front of us”. Echoing the bleak outlook, WHO data indicates that by May 2022, 15…

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Kaduna: NAFDAC seizes unregistered, expired drugs worth N20m

Aminu Imam

Sani Magaji Muhammed The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has seized unregistered/expired aphrodisiacs, and other drugs worth N20m in Kaduna State. The agency made the seizures during a raid in 26 shops at the Sabon Gari market, in Zaria LGA of the State. The seizures were microgynon, drugs meant to be distributed free to Internally-Displaced Persons and oxytocin (injection for women who delivered), which required a specific temperature to be stored, but which were found in the open. Addressing newsmen after the raid, the Deputy…

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Professor Ahmad Rufa’i bags Medal of Honour from Nigeria Society Of Physiotherapy

Aminu Imam

Aminu Imam A specialist doctor in the field of physiotherapy in Nigeria and a Senior Lecturer at the Federal Government University in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Professor Adamu Ahmad Rufa’i, described the recent award given to him by the Nigeria Society Of Physiotherapy as strengthening him in the discharge of his duties. Professor Ahmad Rufa’i stated this when he spoke to journalists in Kaduna shortly after receiving the award given to him by the association. “The award is such a special one to me, considering that a person has…

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Doctors fault Health Minister for dismissing brain drain

Aminu Imam

The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) have faulted the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire’s remarks that Nigeria has enough doctors. The association, while describing the statement as irresponsible, claimed that since 2019, the number of migrating doctors in search of greener pastures has tripled, leaving a huge gap in the number of available specialists to attend to patients across the country. Recall that Ehanire, during a briefing two weeks ago, stated that the country has enough doctors because between 2,000 to 3,000 doctors are…

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‘More Nigerians suffering mental illness due to economic hardship, insecurity’ – Psychiatrist

Aminu Imam

A consultant Neuro-psychiatrist, Dr. Jimoh Adejumo, has said that economic hardship coupled with the level of insecurity in the country could trigger mental illness on more Nigerians. Adejumo, who works with the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday, in Lagos.  He explained that the current economic hardship, coupled with the level of insecurity in the country might likely inflict mental illness on more Nigerians. He said these include inflation, poverty, child abuse, rape, broken homes and broken marriages, financial problems, traumatic experiences and degrees of violence among…

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4,722 Nigerian nurses, midwives top foreign medical workers in UK — Report 

Aminu Imam

The data from the United Kingdom (UK)’s National Health Service, (NHS), has said that at the end of May, not less than 1,000 medical workers, (medics), including doctors had migrated from Nigeria and other African countries to the UK, with Nigeria accounting for more than 60% of the migrants. The data shows that one in three doctors and nurses who joined the NHS in England last year were recruited from overseas with the major catchment area being Nigeria, a development the NHS says has raised concerns that the health service…

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Osinbajo makes first appearance after surgery

Aminu Imam

…Thanks doctors About a week after undergoing surgery on his leg, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo made his first appearance in photographs shared on his social media accounts yesterday. Osinbajo who stood alongside his wife, Dolapo, appreciated the management of Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, following successful surgery on his right femur (thigh bone). Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, informed Nigerians on July 16 that the “VP is in the hospital for a surgical procedure on account of recurrent pain in the leg possibly sustained from an injury while playing squash”. In an…

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WHO declares monkey pox an international public health emergency

Aminu Imam

The World Health Organisation, (WHO), yesterday declared monkey pox a public health emergency of international concern, a designation reserved for the most serious global disease outbreaks. That puts monkey pox on the same list as six other outbreaks with the same WHO label since 2007: Covid-19, Zika, H1N1 flu, polio and Ebola, which has been designated an emergency twice. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency’s emergency committee. It was the first…

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Marburg virus alert: “Avoid unnecessary travels”, FG tells Nigerians

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has urged Nigerians to avoid non-essential travels to locations where the outbreak of the Marburg virus disease (MVD) has been reported for the time being. This advisory, among others, is coming from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as the Ghanaian authorities declared an outbreak of the MVD, which was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the 17th of July 2022. While the NCDC stated the overall risk of both importations of the disease and its potential impact on the Nigerian population is moderate,…

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Kaduna: After visiting 2 State govt-owned hospitals, Sheikh Gumi says Nigeria’s healthcare system has collapsed

Aminu Imam

Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has declared that the nation’s healthcare system has collapsed and requires urgent attention to revive it. He stated this yesterday, when he visited two major State government-owned hospitals in Kaduna, namely Gwamna Awon General Hospital, in Kaduna-South and Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, in Kaduna-North of the Kaduna metropolis. During the visits, Sheikh Gumi offered cash gifts to vulnerable patients while appealing to wealthy individuals in the society to assist the less-privileged in the society, particularly those who are suffering from one ailment…

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