Nigeria’s trauma burden calls for coordinated care — Orthopaedic surgeons
By Chioma Obinna Experts in orthopaedic and trauma care have called for a fundamental shift in Nigeria’s approach to treating patients with traumatic and musculoskeletal injuries, warning that successful surgery alone does not necessarily translate into recovery or restoration of normal life. They said effective trauma care requires a multidisciplinary, patient-centred approach in which surgeons, […]
HIV: NIMSA seeks relevance in policy making
By Olayinka Latona For Nigeria to achieve the goal of universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment Federal government must first involve the youths in policy making and invest more in the health sector while focusing on the grassroots. National Director, Reproductive Health and AIDS, Nigeria Medical Student Association observed during a public lecture to […]
CRH, Population Council extend HIV awareness to Okada riders
By Chioma Obinna RISK groups in hard-to- reach areas in Nigeria need to have access to HIV& AIDS messages, so that the gains of the 2007 National HIV Reproductive Health Survey, which show appreciable reduction in prevalence may be consolidated. This was the message during a five-day free testing and counseling programme organised by the […]
DELSUTH sets the pace in quality health care delivery
By Chioma Obinna & Emmanuel Ebeleke IT is a fact that at least 50 per cent of Nigerians live on less than one dollar a day – a development  emphasised by the quite poor critical health indicators such as maternal and infant mortality.
NHIS spends N1.2bn on maternal and child health
By Sola Ogundipe As part of efforts aimed at further reducing the high rate of maternal and child mortality, in the country, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has so far committed a total of N1.2 billion in the second year of implementation of the NHIS/Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) maternal and child health project.
Pharmacists task FG on wages in health sector
By Sola Ogundipe Pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have reiterated the call on Federal government to urgently tackle the issue of discriminatory salary wages in the health sector to avoid unwarranted industrial disharmony in this potentially volatile sector. Making the call in a communique issued at the end of […]
