The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has called on the government to checkmate security challenges in the country. It said the problem impacts the health sector in the form of brain drain, industrial disputes, ineffective funding through overriding defence budgets, and a decline in efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare interventions. NMA disclosed this in a communiqué, […]
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Striking resident doctors have called the Federal Government’s bluff for invoking the no-work-no-pay policy by stopping their salaries. However, there were indications that states across the country might also adopt the Federal Government policy by equally denying the protesting doctors their salaries. But the doctors said rather than being intimidated by the Federal Government’s action […]
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National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned that unregulated goods and products are harmful to human health. The agency’s Director General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning on Thursday in Benin City, Edo State, at the continuation of its nation-wide sensitisation programme. She said that it has become apparent to […]
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By Banji Ayoola Striking doctors in Ondo State have suspended the action in view of the deteriorating healthcare of the common people who could ill afford exorbitant charges at private hospitals. The suspension followed a meeting that the doctors’ umbrella body, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, held on Wednesday with the state’s House of Assembly […]
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The World Health Organisation has appointed the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, as its Assistant Director General of Health Emergency Intelligence. He is set to assume duty on November 1, 2021. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. disclosed this in a letter addressed to all staff members of the organisation. […]
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The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has warned Nigerians to avoid the risk of taking herbal formulations after 14 days of preparations. Shee explained that such measure was necessary for safety reasons, adding that such medicine should always be kept refrigerated. Alsp a statement […]
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Although African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago, after four years without a case, outbreaks of a vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) is spreading throughout communities where too few children have received the polio vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is a weakened strain of the virus that […]
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NAFDAC Director General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will clampdown on unethical and illegal advertisement of herbal medicines in Kaduna State. T he State Coordinator, Mr Nasiru Mato, disclosed this in an interview on Monday in Kaduna. He said the excesses and arbitrary advertisement of […]
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The Federal Government, on Sunday, expressed concern about the 21-day strike notice issued by the Nigerian Medical Association over the alleged failure of government to meet the demands of the striking resident doctors. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, while responding to an inquiry on the threat by the NMA, said doctors should stop embarking […]
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Warns that no doctor should be victimised for participating in NARD strike Doctors can’t be paid for not working – Ngige NARD vows to continue the strike, accuses FG of not waiting for Industrial Court’s judgment Business boom in private hospitals as patients leave public facilities in drove The health sector may be shut down […]
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