The Deputy President of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) in the Southern zone of Nigeria, Comrade Charles Nwoye has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene over what he described as huge marginalization of his members in federal appointments in the health sector. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Nnewi, Anambra State, Comrade Nwoye said
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has expressed worry over menace of drug hawking and artificial ripening of fruits with calcium carbides across the country. It described drug hawkers as merchants of deaths, stressing that their activities are not only illegal but wicked. Delivering a lecture on Tuesday in Awka,
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Wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo in collaboration with Smile Train organisation, provided free reconstructive surgeries to children born with cleft lips and palate across the state. She said the free surgeries was to give every child with a cleft lip and palate the opportunity to reclaim their dignity. Soludo who spoke
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The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Anambra State, Ass. Prof. Joseph Ugboaja says the future of the health institution is the permanent site. This according to him was the reason his administration is putting everything into the movement of the hospital to her permanent site. This assertion was
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A human rights activist, Dede Uzor Uzor has described as inhuman treatment metted to a 26-year old man, Ugochukwu Ukoha by management of a private hospital in Onitsha, Anambra State. The victim was reportedly rushed to the hospital by his sisters after he was macheted during a fight in their compound at No. 22 Ebenesi Street,
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Communities in Anambra State have been urged to take ownership of Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) in their domain by protecting their facilities from being vandalised. The State Coordinator, Civil Societies in Malaria, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN), Chioma Okeke, gave the charge on Friday during a media engagement on COVID-19 response mechanism/Resilient and Sustainable system for
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The Anambra State Government in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced training for health workers on modified life saving skills to eradicate maternal and infant mortality. Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike who disclosed this while flagging off the training in Awka, said participants were midwives, nurses and community health extension workers
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…carries out free screening for 100 residents to launch the eye care centre Over 100 residents on Tuesday benefitted from free eyes screening and cataract surgeries of Anambra State Government to launch the state’s first Eye Care Centre located at Nise town in Awka South Local Government Area of the State. Head, State Eye Care
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…says training in line with the vision of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of NAUTH Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi on Tuesday flagged of three weeks capacity training on Emergency Management for the staffers of the institution. In his speech at the occasion, the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the hospital, Associate
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have announced that twelve African countries would receive the malaria vaccine. The agencies, in a statement issued on Wednesday, disclosed that the nations would receive eighteen million doses of the first-ever vaccine against malaria over the next two years. The
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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo on Tuesday flagged off the first round optimized Maternal, Newborn Child Health (oMNCH) week in Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area of the state. The exercise, organised by Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ASPHCDA) in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is targeted at strengthening delivery and
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A teenage girl has abandoned her newborn baby in a hospital in Anambra State and fled soon after delivery. Daily Vendor gathered that the abandonment of the baby in the health facility prompted owner to take the baby to the Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo. Confirming the incident, Media aide
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In continuation of her humanitarian gesture to communities in Anambra State, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital(NAUTH) Nnewi on Tuesday took her medical outreach to Neni in Anaocha local government area. The medical mission was a collaboration between NAUTH and the Department of Community Medicine and Primary Healthcare in partnership with M. E. Uduezue and Sons
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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo lamented Nigeria’s growing health indices, saying they required deliberate efforts to improve. He urged community leaders to take ownership of primary healthcare system to reduce maternal and infant mortality as well as increase life expectancy of Nigerians. Soludo spoke through his Deputy, Dr Onyekachi Ibezim at the First Quarter
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LANDIKOTAL: Wold Health Organization(WHO) representative in Pakistan Inaugurated Nutrition Stabilization Center and Clean Drinking Water Plant in district Headquarters hospital in Landikotal on Tuesday. Doctor Palitha Mahipala visited Landikotal and inaugurated the Nutrition Stabilization Center (NSC) and a clean drinking water plant in district headquarters hospital. Palitha Mahipala said that the newly established Nutrition Stabilization
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