FOR the Nigerian health sector, 2013 opened with a strike. The year is also closing with a health sector strike. The outgoing year was serially punctuated with nerve-wracking industrial dispute often culminating in protracted strikes to protest often irreconciliable issues at stake.

In continuation of effots to push for the signing into law of the Nigerian Violence Against Person’s Prohibition Bill, the Wellbeing Foundation teamed up with the National Orientation Agency, The Orange Foundation for Women and Children for the Eradication of Domestic Violence at the First Domestic Violence Summit.

AS part of efforts to further improve patient care and treatment outcomes for patients in critical condition, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, has acquired a brand new state-of-the-art vital signs monitor courtesy Management of Taqwa Private Schools, Ifako, Agege, Lagos.

The Federal Government has taken a step towards establishing a world class medical facility designed to reduce the huge foreign exchange lost daily through medical tourism.

OVER the years, several incidents of rape, and other forms of sexual assault/abuse have not been investigated or pursued to logical conclusion either because the victims, who are usually girls and young women (single or married) failed to report the incident, or even if they reported, the culprit/culprits were not apprehended and prosecuted.

A new report by the United Nations Population Children’s Fund, UNICEF, shows improvement in birth registrations in Nigeria even though the births of about 230 million under-fives around the world, approximately 1 in 3 of all children, have never been registered.

Umunkaka community, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state came alive recently on the occasion of the formal opening of the new Primary Healthcare Centre tagged “Peace Health Centre”

With almost zero knowledge of movement disorders such as Multiple System Atrophy, MSA, amongst Nigerians, the Funmiayo Fashina Foundation, FFF, has canvassed support was key to patients coping psychologically and emotionally even as they called for a support system for sufferers.

“IT is our Right To Know”. This was the theme of a youth seminar organised by the Genotype Foundation recently in Lagos to enlighten youth in secondary schools about issues surrounding Sickle Cell Disease, SCD. Currently, Nigeria has the highest number of people living with sickle cell anemia in the world. At the event, free genotype testing and blood grouping were carried out for all participants who were drawn from 10 secondary schools in Lagos.

It is just by a stroke of luck that Edward Mba, an electrician, isn’t blind today, after he suffered trauma from effects of a bottle of eye drops he purchased from a drug hawker in a commercial bus.