Health

The lingering nationwide strike embarked upon by health workers may suffered a set-back following resolve by doctors to render services and kick against the demands of the health workers.

The National Chairman of JOHESU, Mr Biobebelemoye Josiah, has therefore alerted of efforts by the doctors to frustrate ongoing talks to end the four-week-old strike.

Josiah raised the alarm when he fielded questions from newsmen in Abuja, and also accused the Ministry of Health of collaborating with the doctors in suppressing JOHESU’s legitimate demands from the government.

An expert has revealed how prevention research and use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), will help improve the health of the populace through achieving reduced new HIV infections.

Dr James Anenih, the head of Research at the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA), spoke on the status of PrEP which are drugs that people take to prevent them from getting HIV infection.

According to Anenih, about two years ago the PrEP demonstration study was launched in Nigeria, he explained that PrEP is a procedure for people who do not have HIV but who are at substantial risk of contracting the virus; to prevent HIV infection they take a pill daily.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it hopes to be able to send an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as this week to deal with an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It's thought 4,000 doses will be sent to the remote north-western province of Equateur.

The Miga Local Government Council authority of Jigawa says no fewer than 62,521 children would be immunized at the on-going polio immunisation in the area.

The council’s Information Officer, Alhaji Abdullahi Yakubu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Dutse.

Ebola Outbreak: WHO Sends Experts To Tackle The Democratic Republic of Congo and U.N. agencies began deploying emergency teams of specialists over the weekend to try to prevent the spread of an Ebola epidemic suspected to have infected more than 30 people, they said on Sunday.

The latest suspected case was reported on Friday in the northwestern province of Equateur, which Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga visited on Saturday with officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), according to Reuters.

According to a research, one in every eight American above the age group of 30 has a risk of increased blood pressure.

The study shows that, more than 5.5 million people ignore their health problems and risks of having a high blood pressure.

The rate at which people suffer from high blood pressure globally has reached disturbing levels.