[ad_1] Angela Onwuzoo The leadership of the Healthcare Providers Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have backed the call by the Nigerian Medical Association asking the National Assembly to come up with a law that will criminalise violence against healthcare workers in the country. Recall that the NMA made the call…
[ad_1] Grace Edema The National Health Insurance Authority, Health Maintenance Organisations, Lagos State Health Management Agency, and others have demanded the institutionalisation of total quality health management in every hospital across the country. The different stakeholders who held an interactive session at the NHIA office, Yaba, recently, in a presentation titled, “Institutionalising total quality management…
[ad_1] Grace Edema PPC Limited (formerly Philips Projects Centre), has said good eyesight aids productivity in humans. Speaking at a free eye screening and treatment to community members of the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area, the Managing Director, PPC Limited, Mr. Ayo Grillo, described the medical outreach as a means of giving back…
[ad_1] President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of advanced technology to combat insecurity in the South East geo-political zone. Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State stated this on Tuesday while answering questions from State House reporters after a meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said he had come to see…
[ad_1] Sharon Osaji A committee in Tudun Wada Local Government Area in Kano State has revealed that it has discovered 130 hospitals and pharmacies run by quack doctors, some of which are Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination holders. The committee set up by the Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Tijjani Matata, also said it discovered during…
[ad_1] The NGO Alliance on Health Financing, a group of health organisations, has condemned the beverage industry’s attempts to dissuade the government from raising taxes on carbonated drinks. A N10 per litre excise tax on sweetened, carbonated and non-alcoholic beverages was passed in the 2021 Finance Act. “The beverage manufacturers don’t really care about employment…
[ad_1] Tunde Oyekola The Management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has said that it will still go ahead with the investigation and prosecution of the three people who allegedly assaulted a medical doctor at the hospital over the death of one Soliu, a butcher who reportedly died in the hospital last week Tuesday….
[ad_1] The Director General of the National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), Dr Emem Omokaro, has appealed to state governments to domesticate the National Health Insurance Act to enhance access to healthcare by older persons. Omokaro made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. She said President…
[ad_1] The Nigeria Medical Association, Kwara Chapter, has said that it recorded physical or verbal attacks on its members almost every week. The state NMA Chairman, Dr. Ola Ahmed, made this known to newsmen on Monday in Ilorin. Ahmed lamented that medical doctors in public healthcare facilities across the state and the University of Ilorin…
[ad_1] A final year student of Modibbo Adama University, Yola in Adamawa, Raudah Sheik-Jimeta, says she rakes in N80,000 monthly from the sales of local seasoning and spices. Sheik-Jimeta, who stated this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, said she produced a variety of spices sourced from local…
