Even with dire shortage of doctors in our hospitals, there are still more Nigerian doctors working and excelling outside Nigeria than those in Nigeria. A surreal joke in the healthcare industry is of the Nigerian money-bag that goes abroad for world class medical treatment delivered also by a Nigerian Consultant in the foreign country.
Few years ago, a legislator suffered a heart attack in the house of assembly and died later in hospital. He was the chairman of the house health committee, One must wonder if he would have died if he had done his job right.
South African research that helped produce a promising anti-AIDS gel will change the nature of the fight against the disease, the head of the university that pioneered the research said Tuesday. Malegapuru Makgoba, vice chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on South Africa’s east coast, described the project that created the vaginal gel as a [...]
At the International Health Conference, New York, (19 June – 22 July 1946); an harmonized all-encompassing definition of ‘health’ was postulated, accepted and signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of the 61- member states of the World Health Organization (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and enforced on [...]
Continued from first part (1) According to the Organogram for the New NPHCDA Agency (NPHCDA & NPI Merged) V 2.1 – Post Lokoja Workshop, the purpose of the agency that has now been merged with the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) is to ensure the development of primary healthcare system through advocacy, social mobilization, resource [...]
The shameful status of our national, state, and local blood transfusion programmes are attestations to the precarious situation of our nation.
I WAS elated as I listened to the screening of the would-be Chief Medical Adviser to the Federation and Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Christian Chukwu; my heart filled with unquenchable joy and I was extremely happy as I watched him talk on the floor of the upper chamber of our legislative house in the [...]
In a nameless mud-walled bar, over a lunch of roast goat, bananas and Bell beer, a group of AIDS counselors in Bwindi, Uganda gathers to discuss one question: Why is it so hard to practice safe sex here? The AIDS crisis seems hopeless because of the new infection rate. For every 100 Africans put on [...]
The rate at which women die in childbirth or soon after delivery has fallen by about 40 percent since 1980, with dramatic reductions in the populous nations of India, China, Brazil and Egypt. Maternal mortality is a key gauge of a population’s health and wealth, as well as of women’s status. The rate differs greatly [...]
JOHANNESBURG — A decade after the world’s original deadline for eradicating polio, the most tenacious bastions of the crippling virus — Nigeria and India — have recently shown remarkable progress in halting its spread, giving even some of the antipolio campaign’s severest doubters hope that it may yet largely achieve its goal. In Nigeria, Muslim [...]
