Vanguard summit: Mental health neglect threatens Nigeria’s stability – Sheikh
…Charges FG to enforce 2021 Act, expand services By Sola Ogundipe Nigeria’s neglect of mental health is threatening social stability, weakening public trust and deepening despair among young people struggling with insecurity, and diminishing their confidence in the future, Professor Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, a leading psychiatrist, has warned. Sheikh, a professor of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, […]
LUTH gets new diagnostic, training centres
Medical services at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, have received a boost with the commissioning of new sets of Crystal Optics Centre, Stroke Centre; Modular Theatre; Blood Donor Clinic; and the School of Biomedical Engineering training centre.
Akishi seeks 4.1m for jaw surgery
Terpase Akishi, 16, was not dumb neither was he born sad, but his present predicament has make life really difficult for him. While his peers are going to school or play around he stays in-door shedding tears.
Rotary targets 1,500 for cataract surgery
Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove Estate is targeting 1,500 less privileged Nigerians for free cataract surgeries even as it has concluded plans to provide laboratory materials for 50 schools in Lagos.
Hospital holds diabetes foot care workshop
As more Nigerians grapple with the complication of diabetes foot, arising from the increasing incidence of diabetes in the country, Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, in partnership with the World Diabetes Foundation and the Podiatry Institute, USA has announced plans to organise its 4th annual five-day capacity building workshop on diabetes foot care.
Scientists devise better way to measure BP
Currently available automatic blood pressure measurement devices are commonly off by 10 to 15 mmHg. This is mainly due to indirect determination of the blood pressure from the oscillometric air-pressure wave measurements taken by automatic devices.
