Respite has come the way of resident medical doctors of the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, OSUTH, as Governor Ademola Adeleke has announced payment of residency training allowance among other incentives for the doctors at the institution. With this gesture, the doctors will not join their other colleagues in the proposed national strike. This was […]
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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called on the Federal Government to address its demands before the May 29 handover to a new administration, saying industrial harmony could not be guaranteed thereafter. It also sought intervention from the incoming government to avoid an indefinite strike that could cripple the health system. NARD President, […]
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Hypertension •Treatment costs N1.22tr monthly for 76.2m Nigerians living with ailment •Bad economy, insecurity, abuse of hard drugs, alcohol top reasons more young people are developing hypertension • Spending more time on mobile phone raises risk of having hypertension, new study finds • Nigeria yet to conduct nationally representative survey on hypertension since 1991/1992 • […]
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared a five-day warning strike following the failure of the Federal Government to meet its demands. This was made known after an extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held virtually on Monday. According to the doctors, the strike will begin on Wednesday, May 17, and end on […]
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By Dr. Sylvester Ikhisemojie Once again, the topic for this week has been changed due to the increasing number of harrowing experiences narrated by parents and their relatives in various Nigerian hospitals. In the past, it seemed that events like we are about to read about could happen in certain sectors of the healthcare industry […]
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As part of efforts to celebrate World Asthma Day (WAD), May 2, 2023, and reduce the burden of asthma in Nigeria, the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) has advocated education of asthma patients and carers as an integral part of asthma care to achieve optimal control of symptoms and exacerbation. According to NTS, asthma is a […]
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The Executive Director of, the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has said that the demand for Primary Healthcare services in the country has remained sub-optimal due to poor quality of care, low level of trust in the health system arising from misinformation and disinformation as well as social, cultural and geographical […]
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Sperm • Reduced semen motility, abnormal morphology leading causes of male infertility in regions, researchers find • Recommend general body cleansing, detoxification few months before conception Researchers in Nigeria and South Africa have raised the alarm on decreasing trend in quality of sperm in men from the two countries. The researchers in a study titled […]
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The Global Initiative for Asthma, GINA, the World Health Organization, WHO, and the Nigerian Thoracic Society, NTS, have called on world leaders to increase health budget in order to enhance access of their citizens to effective and quality medications, particularly, asthma patients. The bodies made the call on Tuesday, in commemoration of the 2023 annual […]
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Fake drugs Attorney General Alliance Africa Programme (AGA-Africa) in collaboration with policy makers of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have rolled out the legal implications of fake medicines. They also rolled out strategies for safeguarding the pharmaceutical landscape in Nigeria and beyond from the nefarious activities of drug counterfeiters. Speaking at a two-day workshop […]
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