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Health NewsGroup Launches Therapy App for Children With Autism In Nigeria

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 20, 2022

Therapy for children with autism has proven to be one of the most effective ways to manage the disorder, but accessibility to professional therapists in Nigeria has frustrated the efforts of many parents seeking treatment and professional care for their children. In a bid to address this, a non-governmental organisation in Nigeria – The Autism Awareness Foundation (TAAF), has launched a mobile application to support the care of autism in the country. Tagged; “TheraConnect,” the application, according...

Health News WellnessBuhari Signs National Health Insurance Bill Into Law

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 20, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022. The newly signed Act has repealed the National Health Insurance Scheme Act 2004. Speaking during the signing of the bill, Buhari said the new law makes provisions for the setup of a trust fund “to ensure the coverage of 83 million poor Nigerians who cannot afford to pay premiums as recommended by the Lancet Nigeria Commission”. “For the large number of...

Health News WellnessSmoking Shisha Makes Breasts Sag, Expert Warns

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 14, 2022

A public health physician, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, popularly known as ‘Aproko Doctor’, has warned women against smoking shisha, noting that indulging in the act can make their breasts sag. Dr. Egemba also noted that those smoking shisha—a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporising and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium through a water basin, often glass-based, before inhalation—are equally more at risk of looking older than their...

Environment Health NewsFG To Construct 10,000 Public Toilets To End Open Defecation In Abuja

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 10, 2022

ABUJA — The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it plans to construct 10,000 public toilets in strategic locations to end open defecation across the FCT. The Acting Director, FCT Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Mohammed Dan-Hassan, said this at a sensitisation programme for residents on the risks of open defecation, on Monday in Abuja. Dan-Hassan disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had 2018 launched an emergency on water sanitation and hygiene in the...

Health NewsMedical Director FMC Yola Applauds Nurses For Commitment, Dedication To Duty

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 10, 2022

YOLA — Nurses of the Federal Medical Centre Yola have been applauded for their commitment and dedication to duty in the service to humanity. The Medical Director of the Centre, Professor Auwal Abubakar who stated this on Tuesday in a message to Maryam Dangtibiya award for April 2022 and Annual award of 2021, described nurses as catalysts in the service to humanity. Represented by the Head of Clinical Services of the Centre, Doctor Ahmadu Usman...

Health News WellnessGay Rights Activist, Bisi Alimi Celebrates 18 Years Of Living With HIV

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 5, 2022

Nigerian LGBTQ rights activist, Bisi Alimi is celebrating 18 years of living with HIV. Alimi, who gained international recognition when he became the first Nigerian to come out as gay on television, said he hid his HIV status for five years because of shame and stigma. “Eighteen years ago, at the national AIDS conference in Abuja and with nudging from friends, I walked into a testing booth for the first time,” his post on Facebook...

Health Investing NewsEnugu State Partners With Fr. Mbaka To Build Hospital, Waste Management Plant And Factories

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)May 4, 2022

ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has declared his administration’s intentions to support a proposal by a British firm, HP Kapital Limited to build a 500-bed University Hospital, three factories, a waste management plant and other facilities within the vicinity of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu. The Governor disclosed this when he received in the audience the fiery Roman Catholic priest and Spiritual Director Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka,...

Health World NewsOver 602,000 Died of Malaria Last Year – WHO

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 26, 2022

No fewer than 602,000 people died of malaria across Africa last year, an official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, said this on Monday in her message to commemorate this year’s World Malaria Day tagged ‘Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives’. “Malaria remains a significant public health and development challenge,” she declared. “In the last year, about 95 per cent...

Health PhilanthropyExxonMobil Foundation Renews Commitment to End Malaria in Nigeria

PilotnewsApril 25, 2022

ExxonMobil Foundation, in collaboration with ExxonMobil affiliate companies and other orgnisations have renewed their commitments to end malaria in the country. Mr. Richard Laing, the Managing Director, ExxonMobil Affiliate in Nigeria, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja as part of efforts to end malaria scourge in the country. Laing said that the move was to support ongoing programmes that would reduce the burden of malaria in the country. He added that for...

Health99% Of Private Hospitals In Nigeria Lack Registered Pharmacies

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 25, 2022

Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) says more than 99 percent of private hospitals in Nigeria run unregistered pharmacies. National Chairman and Secretary of the Adewale Oladigbolu and Ezeh Ambrose, in a statement, said those hospitals lacked pharmacists to superintend dispensing and counselling of drug-related endeavours. The association was reacting to a statement by the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Tajudeen Sanusi, that private hospitals in Nigeria were the centres...

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