[ad_1] BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government has announced key tasks for deepening the reform of medical and healthcare systems for the second half of the year. The tasks include expanding the availability of quality medical resources and ensuring they are evenly distributed among regions, and deepening reform of public hospitals to ensure…
[ad_1] ASHLAND The playing surface at Ashland Blazer’s soccer complex will bear a new name starting this season: Frank Sloan E.B. Lowman Field. The Ashland Independent Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of the name during Monday’s meeting. According to Ashland Athletic Director Jim Conway, the idea to name the field after two prominent…
[ad_1] Economy NHIF pays five times more for drugs, distributors tell MPs Wednesday July 26 2023 (From left) NHIF board chairman Michael Kamau, acting NHIF CEO Samson Kuhora and Principal Secretary for Public Health and Professional Standards Harry Kimutai before the Departmental Committee on Health at Parliament on June 27, 2023. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO…
[ad_1] Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has pledged to increase the annual budgetary allocation to the health sector to 10 per cent of the country’s total budget. The Special Adviser to the President on Health, Salma Anas, made this known at a health summit organised by Gatefield in Abuja on Tuesday. The summit is themed; “Taxing…
[ad_1] The Kaduna government says it recorded 68 suspected cases and eight deaths from diphtheria. Diphtheria is a severe bacterial infection that usually affects the nose and throat mucous membranes. Hamza Ibrahim-Ikara, the director of public health at the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview in Kaduna….
[ad_1] By MACHARIA MWANGI African countries are headed to miss their own target of reducing hunger through better agricultural investments. The revelations emerged on Monday at a meeting of the African Union meant to evaluate Africa’s path to towards better nutrition and eradication of extreme hunger. Read: Paradox of feeding Africa’s starving millions And it emerged…
[ad_1] The issuance of national identity cards in the country can be said to have had a chequered history. That history begins from 1973 when such cards were issued to citizens in the border regions of Ghana, including Volta, Northern, then Upper Region (now Upper East and Upper West), Brong Ahafo, and parts of the…
[ad_1] BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) — “Monet, Van Gogh and the masters of modernism — Masterpieces from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma” was open to the public on July 16 in a venu of the Meet You Museum in Beijing, with 47 authentic works from 36 masters of modernism displayed. The…
[ad_1] The wife of the Anambra State Governor, Nonye Soludo, has urged Nigerians to embrace walking and cycling to reduce vehicular air pollution and promote a healthy lifestyle. Mrs Soludo made the call during a media chat on Tuesday in Awka to promote her project – Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo Campaign. She said that…
[ad_1] By PAULINE KAIRU Researchers propose continual cutting of stumps, application of basal bark herbicide, as well as manual uprooting as the best ways of taming the Prosopis juliflora, a kind of mesquite that has become a menace in Africa. Experts say these methods have successfully controlled the invasive tree in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania,…
