3.5m missing births:: How hospitals can close Nigeria’s registration gap
… Experts add: Register them where they are bornBy Chioma Obinna The first cry came, then the rush of hands. A newborn baby girl had just entered the world. While nurses attended to the mother and cleaned the baby, Emmanuel Joseph was already thinking beyond the excitement of fatherhood. He wanted his daughter to exist […]
Health workers should end strike now — Dr Rahman Lawal, MD, Yaba Psychiatric Hospital
THE Management Board, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos has urged healthworkers to return to work immediately in the interest of the patients who are the centre of healthcare in the sector.
Stop diabetes before it stops you
JOHN was diagnosed diabetic at 40, but instead of focusing on the disease, he ignored it. After all, he didn’t feel sick. But gradually, his health was failing.
Why healthworkers should resume work — LAWALBY
The law if Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos has urged healthworkers to return to work immediately in the interest of the patients who are the centre of healthcare in the sector.
Another facet of back pain
The human spine is like a ladder made up of 24 steps, called vertebrae, stacked on top of one another to create the spinal column. This ladder gives the body its form, our main upright support.
Shortage of medical personnel: Tougher times ahead for Nigerians (2)
In 2014, when the Federal government ordered the sacking of 16,000 resident doctors across the Federation, there was a huge outcry not only from the medical community, but from the entire health sector. The decision was not only considered drastic, but ill advised and potentially catastrophic because resident doctors a.k.a. trainee doctors, constitute the main support force and backbone for medical practice in the public sector.
