Health Sector Gets Attention, as Ogun State Revises Budget

EconomyHealthNewsHealth Sector Gets Attention, as Ogun State Revises Budget

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 10, 2020

The Government of Ogun State, in a bid to fight coronavirus, has said that twenty per cent of the revised 2020 budget has been allocated to the health sector. At a virtual Consultative Meeting on the Year 2020 Revised Budget, held at the Ministry of Budget and Planning, the Governor said that pandemic had brought implications that prompted the government to draw up a realistic budget that would serve the interest of the people. Other...

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High Cost of Anti-snake Venom Drives Patients Away From Adamawa Hospitals

HealthNewsHigh Cost of Anti-snake Venom Drives Patients Away From Adamawa Hospitals

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)July 8, 2020

The high cost of anti-snake venom is now driving victims of snakebite from public hospitals to seek herbal medicines in Adamawa state, investigations have revealed. Snakebite envenoming is a major public health problem among rural communities of the Nigerian savanna. A family of one of the patients who pleaded anonymity said that ‘’staying in the hospital has brought forward to me, that the common man is facing the difficulty of his life. ‘’ For instance, ...

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COVID-19: FG Activates All FCT Public Hospitals for Sample Collection

CoronavirusHealthNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: FG Activates All FCT Public Hospitals for Sample Collection

PilotnewsJuly 3, 2020

The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), has said that all government hospitals in FCT would become COVID-19 sample collection sites so that walk-in cases could have samples taken for testing. The Minister of Health, Mr Osagie Ehanire, who announced this during the PTF briefing on Thursday in Abuja, said that the move was geared towards scaling up the number of daily tests conducted in the country daily. “This assures users and caregivers of reduced bottlenecks and improved...

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How Lagos is Preparing for Increase in Demand for COVID-19 Test

CoronavirusHealthNewsHow Lagos is Preparing for Increase in Demand for COVID-19 Test

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)June 30, 2020

The Lagos government in anticipation of an increase in demand for COVID-19 test in the state has given seven private laboratories approval to begin polymerase chain reaction testing for the virus. The laboratories are Total Medical Services, Synlab, 54 Gene, Medbury Medical Services, Biologix Medical Services, 02 Medical Services, and Clina Lancent Laboratories. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, said during the signing of a memorandum of understanding, that bringing private laboratories onboard was...

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Anambra Govt. Identifies 6 Herbal Products for Management of COVID-19

HealthNewsNigeriaAnambra Govt. Identifies 6 Herbal Products for Management of COVID-19

PilotnewsJune 30, 2020

Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, the Special Adviser to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Indigenous Medicine and Herbal Practice, said that the government had identified six herbal drugs that could be used to manage Coronavirus in the state. Ibezim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Tuesday that the agency had forwarded the products to the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). He said that a team of medical experts...

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Nigeria’s Arduous Campaign to End Wild Polio Virus and the New Battle to Stay Polio-Free

HealthSpecial ReportNigeria’s Arduous Campaign to End Wild Polio Virus and the New Battle to Stay Polio-Free

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)June 29, 2020

It took Nigeria longer than other African countries to have its documents accepted by the Africa Regional Certification Committee — a step towards wild polio-free certification for the entire African region. But it is not a total victory, yet, as the battle against polio has only taken a new dimension which would require doing more to maintain a wild polio-free status. Adeola Oladipupo, The West African Pilot News Assistant Editor, writes from Lagos. LAGOS –—...

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US-based Nigerian Medical Expert Invents COVID-19 Infected Lungs Detector

HealthScience & TechnologyUS-based Nigerian Medical Expert Invents COVID-19 Infected Lungs Detector

PilotnewsJune 29, 2020

Dr Samson Arigbamu, a Nigerian medical expert based in the U.S., says he has invented a stethoscope equipped with components capable of identifying adventitious lungs such as COVID-19 infected lungs immediately. Arigbamu told newsmen on Sunday in Ibadan that the stethoscope was in production at prototype and optimisation stage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Arigbamu had lived in the U.S for 22 years and was currently the Director of Nursing at Future...

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Resident Doctors in Bayelsa Suspend Strike for 3 Weeks

HealthLabourNewsResident Doctors in Bayelsa Suspend Strike for 3 Weeks

PilotnewsJune 26, 2020

Resident doctors at the Bayelsa Government-owned Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri, have suspended their indefinite strike for three weeks. It would be recalled that the NDUTH chapter of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) continued the strike after the national leadership of resident doctors called off the strike and directed members to resume work on June 22. Dr Oru-Oru Inetsol, President of NDUTH chapter of ARD,  told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on...

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What Every Man Must Know About Prostate Gland

ColumnsHealthNewsWhat Every Man Must Know About Prostate Gland

PilotnewsJune 26, 2020

Every man has a pair of kidneys. The job of the kidney is to remove waste from the body. Every day, your blood passes through your kidney several times to be filtered. As the blood is filtered, urine is formed and stored in a temporary storage tank called the urinary bladder. If there is no urinary bladder, as you walk around urine will be dropping. And to avoid this, God in His wisdom ran a...

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How Ogun State Spent N2.7 Billion on Curbing COVID-19 Spread

CoronavirusHealthNewsHow Ogun State Spent N2.7 Billion on Curbing COVID-19 Spread

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)June 24, 2020

The Ogun State government said it had spent a sum of N2,779,000,000 in a bid to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the State. The COVID-19 Task Force in the State disclosed this through the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinola Ojo, in a press briefing. Mr Ojo said that treatment and isolation centres were set up, palliatives and seedlings were purchased and distributed to some residents and farmers. He added that a part of the...

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