Category: Health

A call has been made by some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (CT), Abuja, for a law that will allow female employees in Nigeria to have a day off work to rest during their menstrual cycle as obtainable in Zambia. The residents made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. The call is coming on the heels of a similar law recently enacted by the Zambian Government which requires employers to give female employees a day off during their menstrual…

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Federal Government has been urged by the Association of resident doctors (ARD), comprising Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Yaba, and the National Orthopaedic Hospital (NOH) Igbobi, to pay their salaries and see to their general welfare. ARD, at a press briefing held in Lagos, noted the absurdity of the unjust and unfair policy of payment of fractional salaries to doctors in the Federal and state tertiary health institutions in the country, which has continued since December 2013 despite their protestations. President, ARD, LUTH, Dr. Sekumade Adebayo, said…

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Oyo State Medical doctors under the employ of two Teaching Hospitals, University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan and LAUTECH Teaching Hospital (LTH) Ogbomoso have raised alarm over irregularities in their remuneration, saying that, resident doctors in LTH, Ogbomoso only received three and half month salaries in 2016 while UCH Ibadan resident doctors are yet to get November and December 2016 salary. At a joint press conference in Oyo as part of the National Association of Resident Doctors’ nation-wide sensitisation on its impending strike, the doctors described the situation as unfair and…

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Stakeholders in the health sector have raised an alarm over inadequate budgetary provision of N304 billion for the Federal Ministry of Health in the 2017 national budget. The stakeholders on the platform of Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health, PACFAH, disclosed that the proposed health budget was cumulatively lower than that of 2016 due to  foreign exchange challenges in the value of  naira to the dollar. In a statement on the State of Nigeria Health Budget – 2017 issued by the PACFAH, the stakeholders, noted that the proposed…

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The facility of an auxiliary nurse in the Odogunyan, Ikorodu area of the state, has been sealed by the Lagos State Government after she allegedly pulled off the hand of a baby while forcing her delivery. The baby was later delivered dead at the Ikorodu General Hospital. It was reported that an auxiliary nurse, Oyekanmi, had attempted to deliver a pregnant woman, Adeola, of her baby during which there was a complication. She had reportedly tried forcing the baby out and eventually pulled out the baby’s hand. Our correspondent reported…

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Due to its anti-hypertensive properties, consumption of  `zobo’ drink is very effective in the management of hypertension, says Dr Ochuko Erukainure, a nutritional biochemist. Erukainure, a senior research officer with the Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO), Oshodi, Lagos State, disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos. According him, `zobo’ drink also known as hibiscus drink also helps in reducing cholesterol level, high blood pressure, diabetes and constipation in the human system. “`Zobo’ drink contains between 15 per cent and 30 per cent organic acids such as: citric acid, maleic acid,…

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Stunning success in Assisted Reproductive System, known in medical parlance as In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) has been recorded by the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). According to the modern father of the IVF in West Africa, Prof. Augustine Oruhe who is from the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O and G) University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), “no publicly owned hospital at present in Africa has a better record success in the IVF than the UITH.” He added, “by this feat, the UITH has joined the league of teaching…

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A new study suggests that people with hyperhidrosis — an excessive sweating condition — also seem to have higher-than-average rates of anxiety and depression. Roughly 21 percent and 27 percent of people with hyperhidrosis screened positive for anxiety or depression, respectively. That compared with 7.5 percent and just under 10 percent of other patients, the study revealed. The findings are published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.The findings do not prove that hyperhidrosis caused those mental health issues. In some cases, excessive sweating…

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Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to ending open drug hawking by Aug. 1, 2017. Elijah Mohammed, the registrar of the council, gave the assurance in an interview on Monday in Abuja described this as part of efforts to regulate drug distribution system in the country. He said the move would assist in curtailing the menace of open drug sale. Mohammed attributed major challenges in the health system to open drug hawking. He added that a lot of the hawkers sold fake and adulterated drugs.…

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Audu Ogbe, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has put poultry farmers across the country on alert over the recent outbreak of bird flu in Kano State. Ogbeh said poultry farmers should apply preventive measures to curtail any penetration in their farms by migratory birds from Europe and other parts of the world believed to be carriers of the virus which decides to rest as they come in contact with birds in the poultry farms before migrating to other places. He said such occurrence leads to outbreak of avian influenza,…

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