As the Lagos state government prepares to roll- out its State Health Insurance Scheme, PharmAccess Foundation has trained health workers drawn from the State Ministry of Health and Agencies as State Quality Champions. The week- long training was to improve to support improvement efforts of healthcare facilities empanelled under the mandatory Lagos State.

The challenges of inadequate qualified healthcare personnel and brain drain in the health sector would soon be reduced to barest minimum as Imo State College of Nursing and Midwifery, is set to  produce world class healthcare givers.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, to enable it operate optimally and meet the healthcare needs of Nigerians.

With the commissioning of a N3.8 billion European Union – Support to Immunization Governance in Nigeria (EU-SIGN) in 23 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nigeria is set to bridge the gap in routine immunisation and reduction of deaths of children of both the rich and the poor under five years. 

Next Sunday (November 12), the world will mark the World Pneumonia Day to remind about the deadly disease that kills a child every 20 seconds globally.   Although pneumonia is also one of the solvable problems in global health, it accounts for one in four under- five deaths. 1.5 million children die from pneumonia and diarrhoea each year.