A cholera outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria has killed 231 people this year across 11 states and infected more than 4,500 others, the country’s chief epidemiologist said on Friday. (more…)
Mr. Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee writes on the”The tragedy of Noma (more…)
Speaker Bankole
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that over 100,000 cases of cancer occur in Nigeria annually, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole has revealed.
Bankole said as a result of the frightening figure, the House of Representatives has come up with a Bill on the National Cancer Institute to serve as control mechanism. (more…)
The National Orientation Agency (NOA), said it would need the support of international donor agencies in the efficient discharge of its assignment. NOA’s Lagos State director, Nasir Kaka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that there was the need for international donor organisations to support the agency in the area of logistics. (more…)
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is working with the Nigerian Government to contain an unprecedented outbreak of lead poisoning in the country’s north, a result of the processing of lead-rich ore in gold mining.
Earlier this year, the non-governmental organization (NGO) known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) informed the Ministry of Health in the state of Zamfara of a rise in the number of the deaths and illnesses of children in the villages of Bukkuyum and Anka.
WHO joined an international investigation team, which confirmed that more than 100 children in the area were suffering from severe lead poisoning, with more than 10 times the concentration of lead in their blood than the levels associated with impaired neurological development in young children. (more…)
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday said Nigeria has maintained a high incidence of wild poliovirus cases due to persistent high numbers of unvaccinated and undervaccinated children and as a result the country has served as the reservoir for polio that could have spread internationally. (more…)
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Dean Faculty of Public Health, University of Ibadan, Oladimeji Oladepo, has said Nigeria has the highest infant mortality rate in Africa.
Disclosing this at the 2nd National Conference on Health Promotion, titled “Health Promotion: A tool for achieving effective maternal, newborn and child health through enhanced partnership and inter-sectoral collaboration”, in Abuja this week, Oladepo said that Egypt had mortality rates of 33 deaths per 1000 live births; South Africa, 45 per 1000, while Burkina Faso had 56 per 1000, compared to 100 per 1000 in Nigeria.
Henry Ewunonu writes on how the National Hospital Abuja can be repositioned to offer better health services. (more…)
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Nigeria’s Health sector is set to receive a boost as the Federal Government and the 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have agreed to dedicate 15 per cent of their annual national budget to the health sector. Disclosing this, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said t all the 36 State Governors, including the FCT Minister had all signed a document will see the state governments including the Federal Capital Territory committing 15 per cent of their budgets to the health sector from now to 2015. (more…) |
Bill Gates
The recent declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan that over 90 per cent success has been achieved in efforts to eradicate polio in the country is welcome news for which Mr. Bill Gates of the United States of America must be appreciated. (more…)
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