Tag: healthcare
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Big Tent for Peter Obi hosts listening clinic on healthcare
Consistent with its mantra of big thinking and innovation in policy direction driven by the need of the Nigerian people, the umbrella body of the Peter Obi Presidential campaign organisation, the BIG-TENT for Peter Obi has organised the first-ever global town hall meeting on healthcare, the first in a series, designed to listen to Nigerians…
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FACT CHECK: Did power outage result in death of 14 babies at UPTH?
Over the weekend, social media was awash with a report that fourteen (14) babies in the neonatal unit of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Rivers State died as a result of an epileptic power supply. Findings by TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) revealed that the report titled: “Doctors suspend surgery procedures as 14 babies die…
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Monkeypox: Nigeria reports six cases, one death in May
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its latest report on Monkeypox, said the country recorded six cases and one death in May. The centre said that Nigeria’s risk of exposure to the Monkeypox virus was high based on the recent risk assessment it conducted. The NCDC in its latest epidemiological summary on Monkeypox…
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Anambra Govt. to utilise telemedicine to improve healthcare delivery — Commissioner
The Anambra Government says plans are underway to commence the utilisation of telemedicine to make up for the deficit in healthcare professionals in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, said this in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Tuesday. According to him, the initiative will increase access and improve healthcare delivery…
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Senate probes abandoned N400bn project initiated by ex-President Obasanjo
The Senate has mandated the Committees on Health, Primary Health Care and Communicable Disease, Works, and Housing to investigate the abandoned N400 billion naira National Primary Health Center Project initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo across the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria.
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Army foil attempt to kidnap doctors, nurses providing free healthcare in Imo
Troops of Exercise Golden Dawn have foiled an attempt to abduct a group of doctors and nurses providing free healthcare for residents in Amauju Isu Local Government Area of Imo State. The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this via a statement. While noting that a suspected member of the outlawed…
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JOHESU shelves plans to shutdown healthcare services in Nigeria
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have suspended their threat to shut down healthcare services in the country. The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country over Federal Government’s inability to meet their members’ demands. Mr Matthew Ajorutu,…
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Buhari, Nigeria’s healthcare and COVID remedies (7), By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon As more vaccines are being approved for use against COVID-19, a couple of factors compels the “urgent need” for Nigeria to have the capabilities to develop and manufacture vaccines. One: The potential for “vaccine owners” to withhold doses from poor and developing countries, in the face of more rapid spread of the…
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Buhari, Nigeria’s healthcare and COVID remedies (5), By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The issue of “vaccine nationalism” has taken root amid worries over inadequate or irregular delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, especially in Africa, that are behind in inoculation. Of the billion plus vaccine doses administered worldwide, “31 per cent have gone to North America, and under two per cent have gone…
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Buhari, Nigeria’s healthcare and COVID remedies (3), By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Heartwarming as government’s revelation of production of two candidate vaccines is, Nigeria, with even availability of the needed funds, cannot conduct clinical trials, much less produce COVID-19 vaccines or any vaccines, in the country. The “why” isn’t far-fetched: Absence of or inadequate infrastructure and equipment for such ventures. This might be the…